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Friday–Sunday, February 17–19, 2017<br />
Conference<br />
Bodhisattva Precepts in East Asian Perspective and Beyond<br />
Friday (4–6:30 pm): 180 Doe Memorial Library<br />
Saturday (9:30 am–6 pm) – Sunday (9 am–12:00 pm): Alumni House<br />
UC Berkeley<br />
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Panel 1 (Friday, February 17, 4–6:30pm): China I<br />
Chair: Peiying Lin (UC Berkeley)<br />
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T. H. Barrett (SOAS, University of London) — How did Chinese Lay People Perceive the Bodhisattva Precepts?<br />
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Liying Kuo (Ecole Française d’Extrême-Orient) — Visions and the Reception of Bodhisattva Precepts in the Fifth and Sixth Centuries<br />
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Charles Muller (Tokyo University) — The Silla Monk Daehyeon and his Commentary on the Sutra of Brahmā's Nethttp://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/sseas.html?event_ID=107115&date=2017-02-17Bodhisattva Precepts in East Asian Perspective and Beyond, Feb 18http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/sseas.html?event_ID=107116&date=2017-02-18
Friday–Sunday, February 17–19, 2017<br />
Conference<br />
Bodhisattva Precepts in East Asian Perspective and Beyond<br />
Friday (4–6:30 pm): 180 Doe Memorial Library<br />
Saturday (9:30 am–6 pm) – Sunday (9 am–12:00 pm): Alumni House<br />
UC Berkeley<br />
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Panel 2 (Saturday, February 18, 9:30am–noon): China II<br />
Chair: Raoul Birnbaum (UC Santa Cruz)<br />
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Sangyop Lee (Stanford University) — The Youposai wujie weiyi jing Bodhisattva Pratimokṣa: Its Nature and Historical Significance<br />
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Ann Heirman (University of Gent) — Body Movement and Sport Activities in Bodhisattva Precepts: A Normative Perspective from India to China<br />
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Ester Bianchi (Università degli Studi di Perugia) — Bodhisattva Precepts in Modern China. An Overview and Evaluation<br />
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Panel 3 (Saturday, February 18, 2–3:45pm): China and Japan<br />
Chair: Robert Sharf (UC Berkeley)<br />
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Peiying Lin (UC Berkeley/ Fu Jen Catholic University) — Bodhidharma Lineages and Bodhisattva Precepts in the Ninth Century<br />
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Paul Groner (University of Virginia) — Annen’s 安然 Comprehensive Commentary on the Universal Bodhisattva Ordination (Futsū jubosatsukai kōshaku 普通授菩薩戒広釈): Its Background and Later Influence<br />
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Panel 4 (Saturday, February 18, 4:15–7pm): Japan<br />
Chair: Mark Blum (UC Berkeley)<br />
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Dermott Joseph Walsh (UCLA) — Eisai and the Bodhisattva Precepts<br />
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Richard Jaffe (Duke University) — Kawaguchi Ekai’s View of the Precepts for Buddhism in the Twentieth-Century<br />
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William Bodiford (UCLA) — Anraku Ritsu in Tokugawa Japan: The Reconfiguration of the Bodhisattva Precepts within Japanese Tendai Buddhismhttp://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/sseas.html?event_ID=107116&date=2017-02-18Bodhisattva Precepts in East Asian Perspective and Beyond, Feb 19http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/sseas.html?event_ID=107117&date=2017-02-19
Friday–Sunday, February 17–19, 2017<br />
Conference<br />
Bodhisattva Precepts in East Asian Perspective and Beyond<br />
Friday (4–6:30 pm): 180 Doe Memorial Library<br />
Saturday (9:30 am–6 pm) – Sunday (9 am–12:00 pm): Alumni House<br />
UC Berkeley<br />
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Program<br />
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Panel 5 (Sunday, February 19, 9am–noon) India and Tibet<br />
Chair: Jake Dalton (UC Berkeley)<br />
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Jan-Ulrich Sobisch (Independent scholar) — “Compassionate Killing” Revisited<br />
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Alex von Rospatt (UC Berkeley) — The Adikarma literature. The vows and daily practices of lay bodhisattvas in late Indian Buddhism<br />
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Hiromi Habata (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität) — Did the Bodhisattva-vinaya Exist? The Situation of the Bodhisattva Precepts in India before the Systematizationhttp://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/sseas.html?event_ID=107117&date=2017-02-19ERG Colloquium: Jim Randerson, Feb 22http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/sseas.html?event_ID=106692&date=2017-02-22
http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/sseas.html?event_ID=106692&date=2017-02-22Ankhi Mukherjee | Unseen City, Feb 22http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/sseas.html?event_ID=106143&date=2017-02-22
Join us for a talk by Ankhi Mukherjee, Professor of English and World Literatures in the Faculty of English and a Tutorial Fellow at Wadham College, University of Oxford.<br />
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<b>Talk Abstract</b><br />
This lecture examines the institution of Freudian psychoanalysis in an international frame, with specific reference to its inadequate engagement with urban poverty, as seen in the specific context of global cities in India. Using case studies, it will discuss literary and aesthetic representations of poverty in relation to India's psychoanalytic and psychiatric culture, as that culture is manifested in public attitudes toward the psychic life of the poor. The lecture presents research from the India chapter of Professor Mukherjee's third monograph, <i>The Psychic Life of the Poor: A City Unseen in Mumbai, London, and New York</i>. <br />
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<b>About the Speaker</b>:<br />
Ankhi Mukherjee is Professor of English and World Literatures in the Faculty of English and a Tutorial Fellow at Wadham College, University of Oxford. Her academic interests focus on Victorian and Modern English literature, critical theory and postcolonial and world literature. <br />
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Prof. Mukherjee received a doctor of philosophy degree (PhD) from Rutgers University in the United States. She was visiting lecturer at Royal Holloway College in London between 2001 and 2002, and for the next academic year took up a post at Wadham College, Oxford, as an English lecturer. From 2003 to 2006, she was a post-doctoral research fellow with the British Academy and subsequently took up a post as a tutorial fellow at Wadham and, in 2014, was a visiting fellow at the Humanities Research Centre at the Australian National University. In 2015, she was awarded the title of Professor of English and World Literatures by the University of Oxford. Mukherjee also chaired the Preliminary Examinations board in the 2012–13 academic year.<br />
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While her first monograph, <i>Aesthetic Hysteria: The Great Neurosis in Victorian Melodrama and Contemporary Fiction</i> (Routledge, 2007), drew largely on Victorian literature and culture, Prof. Mukherjee's second book, <i> What Is a Classic? Postcolonial Rewriting and Invention of the Canon</i> (Stanford, 2013) asks how classics emanate from postcolonial histories and societies. Exploring definitive trends in twentieth- and twenty-first century English and Anglophone literature, she examines the relevance of the question of the classic for the global politics of identifying and perpetuating so-called core texts. Emergent canons are scrutinized in the context of the wider cultural phenomena of book prizes, the translation and distribution of world literatures, and multimedia adaptations of world classics. The book's ambitious historical schema includes South Asia, Africa, the Middle East, the West Indies, Australia, New Zealand, Europe, and North America. <i>What Is a Classic?</i> won the British Academy Rose Mary Crawshay Prize for English Literature. <br />
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Prof. Mukherjee is currently working on two projects: an interdisciplinary project that examines the institution of psychoanalysis and its vexed relationship with race and the urban poor in the context of three global cities: Mumbai, London, and New York, and <i>After Lacan</i>, a collection of essays that she is editing for Cambridge University Press (forthcoming 2017).<br />
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Read more about Prof. Mukherjee on her faculty page <a href="https://www.wadham.ox.ac.uk/people/fellows-and-academic-staff/m/ankhi-mukherjee">HERE</a><br />
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Event made possible with the support of the <a href="http://southasia.berkeley.edu/sarah-kailath-chair-memorial-lecture">Sarah Kailath Chair of India Studies</a><br />
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<i>Please note that parking is not always easily available in Berkeley. Take public transportation if possible or arrive early to secure your spot.</i>http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/sseas.html?event_ID=106143&date=2017-02-22NSF CAREER Workshop, Feb 23http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/sseas.html?event_ID=106588&date=2017-02-23
The NSF Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program is an NSF-wide activity that offers the National Science Foundation's most prestigious awards in support of junior faculty who exemplify the role of teacher-scholars through outstanding research, excellent education and the integration of education and research within the context of the mission of their organizations. The CAREER Award program requires an integration of research and education activities beyond the scope of a regular NSF grant.<br />
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BRDO offers a free NSF CAREER Award Workshop for early career faculty each spring. This workshop provides information on NSF CAREER requirements and includes concrete suggestions on how to write a competitive proposal. A panel discussion with current CAREER awardees is a centerpiece of the workshop. Lunch will be provided. Registration required.http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/sseas.html?event_ID=106588&date=2017-02-23Ayesha Siddiqa | Pakistan, Feb 23http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/sseas.html?event_ID=105274&date=2017-02-23
ISAS and <a href="http://southasia.berkeley.edu/berkeley-pakistan-initiative">Pakistan@Berkeley</a>-- a campaign to broaden and deepen Pakistan related research, teaching and programming at UC Berkeley, invite you for a talk by Ayesha Siddiqa, famed Pakistani military analyst, author and political commentator. <br />
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The American war in Afghanistan against terror is far from over yet the best part of the military-strategic relationship seems to have come to an end. It is beginning of a phase that historically is ridden with greater divergence of interests than convergence. While the bitterness seem to outline the bilateral ties, Islamabad is keen to diversify its strategic options - looking at building a linkage with China and Russia instead. Although the civilian leadership is on board with the military as far as building ties with China and Russia are concerned, there appears to be a gap of understanding regarding the overall geo-political strategy. What are the challenges of a changing global game for Pakistan and its impact on civil-military relations will be one of the main emphasis of the talk.<br />
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<b>Ayesha Siddiqa</b> is currently a research associate with the South Asia Institute of the School of Oriental and African Studies, London. She is a Ph.D. in War Studies from King's College, London and an author of two books on Pakistan's Military: (a) <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Pakistans-Procurement-Military-Build-Up-1979-99/dp/0333731727">Pakistan's Arms Procurement and Military Buildup, 1979-99: In Search of a Policy </a>, and (b) <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Military-Inc-Inside-Pakistans-Economy/dp/0745325459/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1406065244&sr=1-1&keywords=military+inc">Military Inc.: Inside Pakistan's Military Economy </a>. She was the inaugural Pakistan fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, a Ford Fellow, a Research Fellow at CMC Sandia, and Charles Wallace Fellow at St Antony's College, Oxford. She has also taught at the Johns Hopkins University, University of Pennsylvania, and Quaid-e-Azam University. Dr. Siddiqa has contributed in various academic journals and is currently working on her book on discourses of radicalism in Punjab and Sindh<br />
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Click to read Ayesha Siddiqa's blog, <a href="http://ayeshasiddiqa.blogspot.com/">Diary of a Politically Incorrect Vagabond</a>. <br />
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This event is presented under the aegis of the <a href="http://southasia.berkeley.edu/berkeley-pakistan-initiative">Berkeley Pakistan Initiative</a> <br />
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<i>Please note that parking is not always easily available in Berkeley. Take public transportation if possible or arrive early to secure your spot.</i>http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/sseas.html?event_ID=105274&date=2017-02-23The Wheel of Time: Tibetan Thoughts on the Buddha’s Anno Nirvanae, Feb 23http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/sseas.html?event_ID=107120&date=2017-02-23
Although fairly long in coming, the Christian calendar began with the year in which Jesus was allegedly born. And Dionysius Exiguus (6thc.) was the first to introduce the notion of A[nno]D[omini], the birth year of the Christ. Famously, the British monk Bede (672‑735) went so far as to deduce in his De temporum ratione of 725, an elaboration of his earlier Liber de temporibus of 703, that 3,952 years had passed from creation to Jesus' birth. For good measure he also recalculated the date of Easter. Perhaps more notoriously, in 1650, Archbishop James Ussher (1581‑1656) calculated that the world had come into being on October 23, 4004 BCE! The great Jewish intellectual Moses Maimonides (1135‑1204) worked with the year of the creation of the world, the Aera Mundi, as his starting point. In his opinion, the world's creation fell on the first of the seventh lunar month [September 7], 3760 BCE, and he used this calculation to date his 1166‑78 treatise, the Sanctification of the New Moon.<br />
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The Buddhists were not so much concerned with the creation of the world — for them it was not — as they generally were with the year in which the Buddha entered nirvana, the year in which he passed away. As yet unpublished and titled Elimination of Errors in Computation 1442 or 1443, Gö Lotsawa Zhönupel's (1392‑1481) polemical work on chronology and computation is a crucially important source for our understanding of the different ways in which the calendars and the various calculations of the passage of time in general developed in Tibet. It is also especially significant for the insights it provides into the numerous attempts that had been made in Tibetan intellectual circles to calculate the chronology of the life of the Buddha and the year of his passing. My talk will focus on this aspect of Gö Lotsawa's work and its place in Tibetan intellectual history<br />
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Leonard van der Kuijp is professor of Tibetan and Himalayan Studies and chairs the Committee on Inner Asian and Altaic Studies. Best known for his studies of Buddhist epistemology, he is the author of numerous works on Tibet and Tibetan Buddhism. Recent publications include "An Early Tibetan Survey of Buddhist Literature" (Vol. 64, Harvard Oriental Series, 2008), coauthored with Kurtis R. Schaeffer, and "In Search of Dharma: Indian and Ceylonese Travelers in Fifteenth Century Tibet" (Wisdom, 2009). Van der Kuijp’s research focuses primarily on the Indo-Tibetan Buddhist thought, Tibetan Buddhist intellectual history, Tibetan Buddhism, and premodern Sino-Tibetan and Tibeto-Mongol political and religious relationshttp://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/sseas.html?event_ID=107120&date=2017-02-23East Asian Topologies of Power, Feb 24http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/sseas.html?event_ID=106275&date=2017-02-24
This symposium will bring into conversation the guest editors of three recent issues of the UC Berkeley-based e-journal Cross-Currents: East Asian History and Culture Review and three additional East Asia scholars to explore the special issues’ thematic convergence on China and its neighbors, on space, and on cartography. Rather than regarding the emergence of the state as a top-down imposition, the three issues suggest that a vast range of state, ethnic, mercantile, and affective practices cohere to reify and give solidity to the fiction of the state. Further, the articles point to: 1) forms of territorial affiliation and sovereignty that are nodular and rhizomic, rather than spatially homogeneous; and 2) to tensions between the fiction of territorial fixity and the realities of a geopolitical footprint in flux. This roundtable discussion will, therefore, focus on two primary theoretical points: the state at the margins and territorial topologies. Audience participation in the discussion is encouraged.<br />
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The special issues are accessible on the open-access Cross-Currents website:<br />
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Frontier Tibet: Trade and Boundaries of Authority in Kham. Vol. 19 (June 2016) addresses questions of economic history and political legitimation in the Sino-Tibetan borderlands (https://cross-currents.berkeley.edu/e-journal/issue-19).<br />
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Mapping Vietnameseness. Vol. 20 (September 2016) explores the emergence of Vietnam’s geographical consciousness and the imagery of national belonging (https://cross-currents.berkeley.edu/e-journal/issue-20).<br />
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Cartographic Anxieties. Vol. 21 (December 2016) explores modern nations’ desire for cartographic appropriation and the anxieties that this desire generates (https://cross-currents.berkeley.edu/e-journal/issue-21).<br />
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Participants include:<br />
Wen-hsin Yeh (UC Berkeley)<br />
Pat Giersch (Wellesley)<br />
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Peter Perdue (Yale)<br />
Kären Wigen (Stanford)<br />
Hue-Tam Ho Tai (Harvard)<br />
Franck Billé (UC Berkeley)<br />
Stéphane Gros (CNRS)http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/sseas.html?event_ID=106275&date=2017-02-24An Evening of Balinese Shadow Play, Feb 24http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/sseas.html?event_ID=106752&date=2017-02-24
ShadowLight Productions’ performance of Wayang Bali: Balinese Shadow Play Sponsored by UC Berkeley Department of Music<br />
Performed by Artistic Director and Shadow Master Larry Reed<br />
Featuring ShadowLight Gamelan Gender Wayang: Carla Fabrizio, Lisa Gold, Paul Miller and Sarah Willner<br />
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Description: <br />
Wayang Bali, the Balinese Shadow Play, is one of the most revered traditional art forms in the world. Plots for Wayang Bali are drawn from the Mahabharata myth cycle, in which five brothers are pitted against one hundred jealous cousins in a struggle for power involving gods, demons, magical weapons, and the inevitable beautiful princess. Larry and the Gamelan musicians make it possible for Western audiences to enjoy this classical form of storytelling. <br />
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ShadowLight Productions is one of the very few professional shadow theatre companies in the world honoring ancient shadow theatre traditions while innovating through the use of contemporary technologies and interdisciplinary approaches. Founded in 1972 by Larry Reed, the company’s mission is to expose the general public to shadow theatre in a wide range of forms including, but not limited to, live performances, film, and other media. Its activities range from traditional shadow theatre performances and creation of new works to documentary films on various shadow theatre traditions and arts-in-education programs. With each project, we aspire to create work as a tool for cultural diplomacy. www.shadowlight.orghttp://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/sseas.html?event_ID=106752&date=2017-02-24Ravinder Kaur | The Second Liberation, Feb 28http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/sseas.html?event_ID=105271&date=2017-02-28
Join us for a talk by Dr. Ravinder Kaur, Associate Professor of Modern South Asian Studies and Director or the Centre of Global South Asian Studies at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark. <br />
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<b>Talk Abstract</b><br />
This paper examines the making of the political category of ‘aam aadmi’ in post-reform India. Through a visual archive of popular campaigns, I show how and when the category of ‘the people’ is displaced by the ‘aam aadmi’ as a central figure in Indian politics. While most studies locate the emergence of aam aadmi as a political category in the anti-corruption movement, I trace its genealogy to a prior moment in the liberalization of Indian economy. In this formative moment we can witness how the linkages between India’s desires for open markets, aspiration of upward class mobility, and deep anxiety of losing the race to become a global player forms the background against which the common man makes its appearance as a political figure. I consider the nature of the political that this shift indicates within the wider currents of 1990s economic liberalization.<br />
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<b> About the Speaker</b><br />
Ravinder Kaur is Associate Professor of Modern South Asian Studies in the Department of Cross Cultural and Regional Studies, University of Copenhagen. She is currently engaged in two long-term research projects. The first focuses on post-reform India’s transition into an attractive ‘emerging market’ in the global political economy, and second, explores the yet unfolding connections between Asia and Africa via a study of new business connections between India, China and Ethiopia. She is the Primary Investigator of two major projects ‘Nation in Motion: Globalization, Governance and Development in New India’ (2010-2015) and ‘Emerging Worlds: Explorations of New South-South Connections’ (2014-2018). Her previous research focused on the questions of forced migration, refugee resettlement, social class and caste and the making of modern citizenship during India’s Partition in 1947. She is the author of <a href="http://www.oxfordscholarship.com/view/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195683776.001.0001/acprof-9780195683776">Since 1947: Partition Narratives among Punjabi Migrants of Delhi</a> (Oxford, 2007), editor of <a href="https://in.sagepub.com/en-in/sas/religion-violence-and-political-mobilisation-in-south-asia/book229027">Religion, Violence and Political Mobilization in South Asia</a> (Sage, 2005), co-editor of <a href="http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/ctwq20/33/4">‘Governing Difference: Identity, Inequity and Inequality in India and China’</a>, Special Issue, <i>Third World Quarterly</i> (2012), co-editor of <a href="https://www.academia.edu/12859421/Aesthetics_of_Arrival_Spectacle_Capital_Novelty_in_post-reform_India_co-author_Thomas_Blom_Hansen_">‘Aesthetics of Arrival: Spectacle, Capital and Novelty in post-reform India’</a>, Journal Special Issue, <i>Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power</i> (2016), and most recently, co-editor of <a href="http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/09584935.2016.1203864">'Social Mobility in post-reform India'</a>, Journal Special Issue, <i>Contemporary South Asia</i> (2016). <br />
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Read more about Prof. Kaur <a href="http://ccrs.ku.dk/staff/?pure=en/persons/201551">HERE</a><br />
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Event made possible with the support of the <a href="http://southasia.berkeley.edu/sarah-kailath-chair-memorial-lecture">Sarah Kailath Chair of India Studies</a><br />
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http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/sseas.html?event_ID=107613&date=2017-03-01ERG Colloquium: Andrew McAllister, Mar 1http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/sseas.html?event_ID=106694&date=2017-03-01
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In the mid-2000's, California began to establish policy goals for Zero Net Energy (ZNE) buildings. Commissioner McAllister will discuss progress toward these goals in terms of energy-related building codes, trends in buildings-related technologies and markets, local government authority and overall energy systems planning. ZNE buildings serve as a jumping-off point for a broader discussion of California's movement toward distributed energy and decarbonization, including needs and opportunities for energy-savvy professionals and researchers.<br />
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Andrew McAllister was appointed to the California Energy Commission by Gov. Edmund G. Brown in May 2012, and was reappointed in January 2017. He is lead commissioner for energy efficiency: energy-related building codes, appliance efficiency standards, existing building efficiency and a variety of other programmatic and financing initiatives across the state. He is heavily involved in implementation of several elements of SB 350 (de León, 2015), the Clean Energy and Pollution Reduction Act. <br />
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Commissioner McAllister has been working on clean energy deployment and policy for his entire 25-year career: beginning in the early 1990s in project engineering and development, evolving into program design and implementation, then moving into the policy arena. He has worked across the world to develop renewable energy generation, energy efficiency investments, and energy management systems, with counterparts ranging from tiny remote communities to the largest of utilities. He administered two of California’s signature renewable energy programs (California Solar Initiative, Self-Generation Incentive Program), developed and operated energy efficiency programs for utilities, and performed a broad range of policy-related research for California and the U.S. Federal government. He currently serves on the boards of directors of the National Association of State Energy Officials and the Alliance to Save Energy. <br />
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Before joining the Energy Commission, McAllister was managing director at the California Center for Sustainable Energy, where he worked for six years. Previously, he worked with NRECA International, Ltd. in the electric sectors of countries in Central and South America, Southeast Asia, and Africa on a variety of renewable generation, load management, utility planning and remote power projects. He was a project manager at an energy consulting firm and worked as an energy efficiency analyst at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Commissioner McAllister holds M.S. and PhD degrees from the Energy & Resources Group at UC Berkeley. He is a Returned Peace Corps Volunteer.http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/sseas.html?event_ID=106694&date=2017-03-01Buddhist Economics: An Enlightened Approach to the Dismal Science, Mar 2http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/sseas.html?event_ID=106033&date=2017-03-02
Please join us as Clair Brown, Professor of Economics and Director of the <a href="http://irle.berkeley.edu/worktech/">Center for Work, Technology, and Society</a> at UC Berkeley, will discuss her new book, <i><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Buddhist-Economics-Enlightened-Approach-Science/dp/1632863669">Buddhist Economics: An Enlightened Approach to the Dismal Science</a></i>.<br />
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Traditional economics measures the ways in which we spend our income, and doesn’t attribute worth to the crucial human interactions that give our lives meaning. Clair Brown, an economist at UC Berkeley and a practicing Buddhist, has developed a holistic model, one based on the notion that quality of life should be measured by more than national income. Brown advocates an approach to organizing the economy that embraces, rather than skirts, questions of values, sustainability, and inequality.<br />
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Complementing the award-winning work of Paul Krugman and Jeffrey Sachs, and the paradigm-breaking spirit of Thomas Piketty and Amartya Sen, Brown incorporates the Buddhist emphasis on interconnectedness, capability, and happiness into her vision for a sustainable and compassionate world.<br />
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Copies of the book will be available for sale from <a href="http://www.mrsdalloways.com/">Mrs. Dalloway's Bookstore</a>.<br />
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This event is co-sponsored by the <a href="https://www.econ.berkeley.edu/">UC Berkeley Department of Economics</a>, the <a href="http://irle.berkeley.edu/">Institute for Research in Labor and Employment</a>, and the <a href="http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/">UC Berkeley Library</a>.http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/sseas.html?event_ID=106033&date=2017-03-02Migrating the Black Body: The African Diaspora and Visual Culture, Mar 2http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/sseas.html?event_ID=106940&date=2017-03-02
The Center for Race & Gender Thursday Forum Series presents...<br />
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Migrating the Black Body: The African Diaspora and Visual Culture<br />
A roundtable with Prof. Leigh Raiford, African American Studies) and Prof. Heiki Raphael-Hernandez, University of Maryland<br />
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Migrating the Black Body explores how visual media-from painting to photography, from global independent cinema to Hollywood movies, from posters and broadsides to digital media, from public art to graphic novels-has shaped diasporic imaginings of the individual and collective self. How is the travel of black bodies reflected in reciprocal black images? How is blackness forged and remade through diasporic visual encounters and reimagined through revisitations with the past? And how do visual technologies structure the way we see African subjects and subjectivity? This volume brings together an international group of scholars and artists who explore these questions in visual culture for the historical and contemporary African diaspora. Examining subjects as wide-ranging as the appearance of blackamoors in Russian and Swedish imperialist paintings, the appropriation of African and African American liberation images for Chinese Communist Party propaganda, and the role of YouTube videos in establishing connections between Ghana and its international diaspora, these essays investigate routes of migration, both voluntary and forced, stretching across space, place, and time.http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/sseas.html?event_ID=106940&date=2017-03-0241st Annual Berkeley-Stanford Conference on Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies, Mar 3http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/sseas.html?event_ID=105616&date=2017-03-03
<em>41st Annual Berkeley-Stanford Conference<br />
on Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies</em><br />
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<strong>1917-2017: 100 Years Since the Russian Revolution</strong><br />
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Speakers:<br />
George Breslauer, Professor of the Graduate School; Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost Emeritus; Professor of Political Science Emeritus, University of California, Berkeley<br />
Elena Danielson, Former Associate Director of the Hoover Institution and Director of the Hoover Library, Stanford University<br />
Gregory Freidin, Professor Emeritus of Slavic Languages and Literatures, Stanford University<br />
Edward Kasinec, Visiting Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University<br />
Eric Naiman, Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of California, Berkeley<br />
Bertrand M. Patenaude, Research Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University<br />
Harsha Ram, Associate Professor of Slavic Languages and Liteartures, University of California, Berkeley<br />
Edward Walker, Executive Director, Berkeley Program in Eurasian & East European Studies; Associate Adjunct Professor of Political Science, University of California, Berkeley<br />
Alexei Yurchak, Professor of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley<br />
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Friday, March 3, 2017<br />
The Faculty Club, Heyns Room<br />
University of California, Berkeleyhttp://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/sseas.html?event_ID=105616&date=2017-03-03Awakening the Dragon: Art, Urban Space, and Authoritarianism, Mar 3http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/sseas.html?event_ID=107509&date=2017-03-03
Jason Luger presents Awakening the Dragon: Art, Urban Space, and Authoritarianism. This talk will explore Luger's fieldwork looking at grassroots art activist movements in Singapore, as well as current research which looks at art-activism in authoritarian contexts around the world, including his upcoming book (June, 2017) entitled Art and the City: Worlding the Conversation Through a Critical Artscapes (Routledge). <br />
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<a href="http://ced.berkeley.edu/ced/faculty-staff/jason-luger">Dr. Jason Luger</a> is an urban geographer with research interests focusing on urban policy, urban social movements and activism, comparative approaches to economic development, and global cities. His work has been featured in academic journals such as IJURR, CITY, Media and Culture and Geoforum. He conducted field research in Singapore from 2012-214, exploring state-society relations, urban policy, and art-led activism. This event is part of the GUH Brown Bag Series on Cities.http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/sseas.html?event_ID=107509&date=2017-03-03Alliances In The Indo-Pacific: A Practitioner's Perspective, Mar 7http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/sseas.html?event_ID=106044&date=2017-03-07
Vice Adm. Robert Thomas graduated from the University of California at Berkeley with a Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering. He holds a Master of Science in National Security Studies from the National War College.<br />
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As a career submarine officer, Thomas has served on fast-attack submarines operating in both U.S. Pacific Command and U.S. Central Command theaters of operation. His assignments included USS Guitarro (SSN 665), USS Permit (SSN 594), USS Asheville (SSN 758) and USS Bremerton (SSN 698) where he served as commanding officer. Additionally, he took command of USS Tucson (SSN 770) while serving as deputy commander, Submarine Squadron (SUBRON) 11.<br />
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Thomas served as commander, Submarine Force, U.S. Pacific Fleet Representative West Coast; commander, Submarine Squadron 11 and commander, Task Force 74/54 in Yokosuka, Japan. In his last assignment, Thomas commanded the U.S. 7th Fleet.<br />
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He assumed duties as director, Navy Staff in October 2015.<br />
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Ashore, Thomas served as flag aide to the deputy chief of naval operations (OP-07); program analyst in the Secretary of the Navy’s Office of Program Appraisal; director of Operational Support (CNO N23); assistant deputy director for Politico-Military Affairs, Western Hemisphere, J5, on the Joint Staff; director, Plans and Policy (N5) for Naval Special Warfare Command; director, Strategy and Policy Division (OPNAV N51); vice director of operations, J3, on the Joint Staff; and chief of staff, J5, on the Joint Staff.http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/sseas.html?event_ID=106044&date=2017-03-07Venkat Srinivasan | Thirteen Ways of Looking at Institutional History, Mar 8http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/sseas.html?event_ID=107391&date=2017-03-08
Over the past decade, there have been many efforts to streamline the accessibility of archival material on the web. This includes display of oral history interviews and archival records, and making their content more amenable to searches. The challenge, however, is not just putting out the data, but of building spaces where historians, journalists, the scientific community and the general public can see stories emerging from the linking of seemingly disparate records. <br />
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We offer the conceptual framework for an online public history exhibit that builds multiple narratives from raw archival data. Such digital exhibits would allow the public to pull material from a variety of primary and secondary sources into coherent stories, and connect personal stories to established records of a scientific process.<br />
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The National Centre for Biological Sciences (NCBS) digital exhibit is a pilot project built around thirteen ways to reflect upon and assemble the history of the Bangalore-based institution (the exhibit title pays homage to Wallace Stevens' poem, Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird).<br />
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The pilot project tries to bring to light multiple interpretations of NCBS, weaved by the voices of over 70 story tellers. The material for the exhibit is curated from records collected to build the Centre's archive. The oral history excerpts, along with over 600 photographs, official records, letters, and the occasional lab note, give a glimpse into the Centre's history and show connections with the present.<br />
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The exhibit is the first phase of a digital experiment in archiving, journalism and story telling. In the next phase (November 2017), we hope to release a standard architecture and template that can work for a variety of institutions/places and allow multiple interpretations of archival material. This will be an open source, publicly available package. The template will allow visitors to write their own narratives around archival material – that is, shape their own exhibits. Following that, in the third phase (~spring 2018), we hope to tie together the histories and start forming networks of stories linked to each other across institutions, places, events, people and time.<br />
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<b>About the Speaker</b>:<br />
Venkat Srinivasan is a visiting researcher at the <a href="https://www.ncbs.res.in/">National Centre for Biological Sciences</a> in Bangalore, India. He joined NCBS in May 2016 to work on features of its archive. The team is developing templates to pull archival material into coherent stories, and connect personal stories to established records of a scientific process. Venkat is an independent science writer, with work in The Atlantic and Scientific American online, Nautilus, Aeon, Wired, and the Caravan. This intersection of science journalism, scientific research and oral history interviews led to probing ways to tell varying science narratives from archival material. <br />
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Event made possible with the support of the <a href="http://www.lse.ac.uk/anthropology/people/banerjee.aspx">Sarah Kailath Chair of India Studies</a><br />
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Deep decarbonization presents what the literature often calls a ‘wicked problem,’ that is, decision challenges that are not well-bounded, are framed differently by various stakeholders, involve deep uncertainties and non-linear dynamics, and are often not well-understood until after formulation of a solution. Robust Decision Making (RDM) is a quantitative, multi-scenario, multi-objective decision analytic approach for supporting decisions under conditions of deep uncertainty, that is, when the parties to a decision do not know or agree on the best model for relating actions to consequences or the likelihood of future events. This talk will describe the RDM approach and some applications to the challenge of deep decarbonization, focused on the questions of policy persistence and of the finance of low-emitting technologies.<br />
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Robert Lempert is principal researcher at RAND Corporation and Director of RAND’s Frederick S. Pardee Center for Longer Range Global Policy and the Future Human Condition. His research focuses on risk management and decision-making under conditions of deep uncertainty. Dr. Lempert is co-PI of the NSF-funded Sustainable Climate Risk Management (SCRIM) research network and co-PI of a MacArthur-foundation funded project conducting urban climate risk management pilots in several U.S. cities.. Dr. Lempert is a Fellow of the American Physical Society, a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, a chapter lead for the Fourth U.S. National Climate Assessment. Dr. Lempert was the Inaugural EADS Distinguished Visitor in Energy and Environment at the American Academy in Berlin and the inaugural president of the Society for Decision Making Under Deep Uncertainty (http://www.deepuncertainty.org). A Professor of Policy Analysis in the Pardee RAND Graduate School, Dr. Lempert is an author of the book Shaping the Next One Hundred Years: New Methods for Quantitative, Longer-Term Policy Analysis.http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/sseas.html?event_ID=106695&date=2017-03-08States of Apology: The Culture of Commemoration, Mar 9http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/sseas.html?event_ID=106941&date=2017-03-09
The Center for Race & Gender Thursday Forum Series presents...<br />
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STATES OF APOLOGY: The Culture of Commemoration<br />
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Sexual Slavery and the Memorialization of Comfort Women<br />
Amandu Su, English<br />
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On December 28, 2015, more than seventy years after the end of World War II, Japan and South Korea reached a landmark agreement to resolve their dispute over Korean women who were forced to provide sexual services for soldiers in Japan’s Imperial Army. Though the Japanese government neglected to accept legal responsibility for the atrocities and offer formal reparations, it nonetheless made an informal apology and promised an $8.3 million payment that would provide care for the 46 surviving women. One of the conditions of the December 2015 agreement was that a statue of a young girl depicting a Korean comfort woman, which has been standing in front of the Japanese embassy since 2011, would be relocated. My paper is an investigation of the comfort women memorials that have been increasingly erected across South Korea and the U.S. since 2010, many of which are replicas of the statue that stands in front of the Japanese embassy. I explore the centrality of the term "sexual slavery" to the comfort women discourse, probing the political and rhetorical implications of linking an atrocity committed by a now nonexistent imperial entity, the Imperial Armed Forces of Japan, to the present day discourse of sex trafficking and "modern slavery," in a critique of the ways in which the political strategies of feminists and cosmopolitan human rights discourses are intervening or reconfiguring those of the postcolonial state.<br />
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Politics of Reconciliation in South Korean War and Peace Memorial Museums<br />
Kristen Sun, Ethnic Studies<br />
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This paper traces circulations of transnational war discourses referring to freedom, sacrifice, and gratitude between the U.S. and South Korea in South Korean national war memorials and museum complexes. Specifically, the phrases “Freedom is not free” and “We honor our sons and daughters who answered a call to defend a country they never knew and a people they never met,” from the U.S. Korean War Veterans Memorial in Washington D.C., are affective sentiments that are repeated verbatim or referenced to in national war memorial sites in South Korea ranging from the War Memorial of Korea in Seoul to the UN Forces First Battle Memorial in Osan to the UN Memorial Cemetery in Busan. This paper argues that war memorial museums in South Korea attempt to reconcile memory of the Korean War through the repetition of these key memorial phrases, emphasizing the necessity of gratitude for and debt to military sacrifice for attaining the “gift of freedom.” However, what happens when affective discourses of gratitude and freedom rub up against memoryscapes of wartime civilian massacre? To this extent, I also examine the Nogunri and Jeju 4.3 Peace Parks and how discourses of truth and reconciliation in these peace memorial complexes fail to cohere with war memorial phrases such as “freedom is not free.” This failure of memorialization projects as reconciliatory projects -- between history and memory, truth and justice, and war and peace -- points to the contradictions of an unending Korean War in the “post-cold war.”<br />
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The Pilgrimage: Interethnic Coalitions and Cross-Race Solidarity at Former Sites of Japanese American Confinement<br />
Desirée Valadares, Architecture<br />
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As political fervor vilifies immigrants, refugees and asylum seekers, it is important to consider the politics and stakes of federally imposed institutional confinement as a misdirected means of dealing with national security, racism and economic exploitation. The incarceration of approximately 120,000 Japanese Americans, between 1942 and 1945, in a network of assembly centers, relocation centers and prison camps scattered across Arkansas, Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Utah and Wyoming is now recognized as a dark chapter in American history. This paper offers a close study of these carceral spaces to provide a compelling material perspective that illuminates questions of citizenship, civil rights, state power, the limits of American justice and the ways in which moral anxieties and civic ambiguities surface in times of war. More recently, the return to these sites of forced exile, via annual ‘camp pilgrimages,’ seek to reenact, to remember, heal and rebuild the social bonds challenged by the camp experience. These pilgrimages, which began as early as 1969, cultivate a union with many people who possess little to no connection with the land itself. Born out of collective solidarity with other ethnic groups during the 1960s civil rights movement, pilgrimages to former Japanese American confinement camps demonstrate the ways in which unlikely alliances and coalitions are forged between disparate communities with analogous experiences of dispossession, oppression and displacement. In an attempt to answer how unrelated American ethnic groups, suffering similar persecution unite in solidarity, this community engaged research involves both, archival research and active participation in six pilgrimages: the 47 th Annual Manzanar Pilgrimage (2016, California), the 40 th Annual Amache Pilgrimage (2016, Colorado), the 3rd Annual Angel Island Pilgrimage (2016, California), a Blessing Ceremony at Honouliuli (2017, Hawaii), the 6th Annual Heart Mountain Pilgrimage (2017, Wyoming) and the 14 th Annual Minidoka Pilgrimage (2017, Idaho).http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/sseas.html?event_ID=106941&date=2017-03-09Staging Grounds, Mar 9http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/sseas.html?event_ID=107823&date=2017-03-09
Maura Nguyen Donohue shares her choreographic focus on the site of the Asian body as a staging ground for complex cultural, racial, and gendered projections in American culture by discussing her 2011 dance work, strictly a female female. She will share how the deployment of a camp aesthetic allows her to destabilize gender norms and traditional concert dance audience/performer relationships. strictly a female female is a 2011 mashup of Asian themed musicals/operas and (mostly) 80s rock.<br />
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About Martha Nguyen Donohue:<br />
Maura Nguyen Donohue is Associate Professor of Dance at Hunter College/CUNY and faculty fellow for the Roosevelt House Public Policy Institute. She has been making experimental performance works in NYC for over 20 years. Her work has been produced by Dance Theater Workshop (now New York Live Arts), Roulette, Danspace Project, Performance Space 122, La MaMa, The Asia Society, Mulberry St. Theater, the West End Theater, and has toured across the US and to Europe and Asia.<br />
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Organized by: The Institute of International Studies Interdisciplinary Faculty Program on Gender and the Transpacific World, Center for Race and Gender, Department of Gender and Women’s Studies, Department of Ethnic Studies, and the Department of Theater, Dance and Performance Studieshttp://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/sseas.html?event_ID=107823&date=2017-03-09Palestine...it is something colonial, Mar 9http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/sseas.html?event_ID=106947&date=2017-03-09
Eastwind Books of Berkeley, The Ethnic Studies Library at UC Berkeley, and The Center for Race and Gender at UC Berkeley present <br />
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Palestine...it is something colonial<br />
Dr. Hatem Bazian Book Launch Discussion<br />
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March 9, 2017<br />
6:30pm - 9pm<br />
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Ethnic Studies Library<br />
30 Stephens Hall<br />
UC Berkeley<br />
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Professor Hatem Bazian (UC Berkeley) provides a decolonial analysis of the most pressing struggle in the world in an extensive study of the occupation of Palestine.<br />
The book’s subtitle is taken directly from the letter of Theoder Herzl, the founder of modern political Zionism, to Great Britain’s Minister of Colonies Cecil Rhodes, that sought support for the Zionist settler colonial project in Palestine.<br />
In 1902, Herzl wrote to Rhodes stating: “You are being invited to help make history. It doesn’t involve Africa, but a piece of Asia Minor; not Englishmen but Jews… How, then, do I happen to turn to you since this is an out-of-the-way matter for you? How indeed? Because it is something colonial.”<br />
Palestine is the last settler colonial project to be commissioned in the late 19th early 20th centuries and still unfolding as we enter into the 21st Century with no end in sight.<br />
In centering Palestine’s modern history around settler-colonial discourses, Hatem Bazian offers a theoretical basis for understanding Palestine while avoiding the pitfalls of the internationally supported “peace process” that, on the one hand, affirms settler-colonial rights and, on the other hand, problematizes the colonialized and dispenses with the ramifications of the colonial project.http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/sseas.html?event_ID=106947&date=2017-03-09Katherine Schofield | The Place of Pleasure, Mar 10http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/sseas.html?event_ID=105331&date=2017-03-10
ISAS and <a href="http://southasia.berkeley.edu/berkeley-pakistan-initiative">Pakistan@Berkeley</a>, a campaign to broaden and deepen Pakistan related research, teaching and programming at UC Berkeley, invite you to a talk by Katherine Butler Schofield, cultural historian and ethnomusicologist whose work focuses on South Asia. <br />
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<b>Talk Abstract</b>:<br />
This paper establishes an overarching theory of the place of Hindustani music in Mughal thought and social life, roughly from the last decades of Akbar’s reign until the death of Aurangzeb ‘Alamgir. My discussion is based on a range of Mughal sources in Persian on sound, listening, and music, notably music-technical treatises from the 1660s onwards. In short: Mughal understandings of the human being, and thus of the social and political worlds, were dominated by two parallel binarisms deriving from the discourse on ethics and proper governance embodied in Persianate akhlāq literature: 1) the inner struggle between reason and the emotions anger and desire (or, in more technical terms, between the practical intellect,‘aql-i ‘amalī, and the irascible and concupiscible faculties, quwwat-i ghazabī and quwwat-i shahwī); and 2) this struggle’s outworkings in the social and political world as the need to maintain balance between the domains of duty and, in the case of desire, pleasure. For virtue to prevail, reason and duty must ultimately win over desire and pleasure. But this victory did not entail the annihilation of desire and pleasure, rather mastery over these domains. This mastery had to be displayed to the world if it were to be deemed a virtue at all.<br />
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Hindustani music was understood in Mughal writings as the sonic vehicle of the emotions joy, love, and longing, all of which belonged to the domain of desire. Musical patronage and connoisseurship therefore became a major social and political arena in which the inner struggle to place desire under rational control could be outwardly manifested. Patronage and connoisseurship of music, recited poetry, dance, youthful beauty, and other evanescent phenomena were the core practices of the domain of pleasure in the Mughal world, conducted largely within the intimate social institution of the majlis or meḥfil (assembly). While listening to music in the majlis could be dangerous to the Mughal official because of its exploration of desire, at the same time music was indispensible to Mughal courtiers because of its use value in fortifying the primary Mughal virtue of male-to-male affection, as a means to spiritual union with the Divine Beloved, and as a medicinal cure for physical and mental disease.<br />
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<b>About the Speaker</b>:<br />
Katherine Butler Schofield is a historian of music and listening in the Mughal Empire and the colonial Indian Ocean. She attained her PhD at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, and after posts at Cambridge and Leeds now holds a permanent position in the Department of Music at King’s College London. Working largely with Persian sources for Hindustani music c.1570-1860, in recent research she has established music as central to Mughal technologies of sovereignty and selfhood, identified classicisation processes at work in early-modern Indian arts, explored the emotional intensifications of paint, sound, and text spun together, told tales about ill-fated courtesans and overweening <i>ustads</i>, and traced the lineage of the chief musicians to the Mughal emperors from Akbar to Bahadur Shah Zafar.<br />
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She has just finished a €1.2M European Research Council grant, “Musical Transitions to European Colonialism in the Eastern Indian Ocean” (2011-16), which investigates the multiple ways in which music and dance were transformed c.1750-1900 in the transition from pre-colonial to colonial regimes in India and the Malay world. Her first book, an edited volume with Francesca Orsini, <i>Tellings and Texts: Music, Literature, and Performance in North India</i>, has recently been published in a pioneering open-access format by Open Book Press (2015).<br />
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Some of her selected publications include: <br />
- “The courtesan tale: female musicians and dancers in Mughal historical chronicles,” Gender & history (forthcoming).<br />
- “Reviving the golden age again: ‘classicization’, Hindustani music, and the Mughals,” Ethnomusicology 54/3 (2010), pp. 484-517.<br />
- “The origins and early development of khayal.” In J Bor, F Delvoye, J Harvey and E te Nijenhuis, eds. Hindustani music: thirteenth to twentieth centuries . New Delhi: Manohar (2010).<br />
- “The social liminality of musicians: case studies from Mughal India and beyond,”twentieth-century music 3/1 (2007), pp. 13-49.<br />
- “Did Aurangzeb ban music? Questions for the historiography of his reign,” Modern Asian studies 41/1 (2007), pp. 77-121.<br />
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For more details, please see her full research profile <a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/artshums/depts/music/people/acad/butlerschofield/index.aspx">HERE</a>.<br />
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The <a href="http://southasia.berkeley.edu/chowdhury-center-bangladesh-studies">Subir & Malini Chowdhury Center for Bangladesh Studies</a> at UC Berkeley celebrate International Women's Day with talks by Monira Rahman, Former Executive Director of the Acid Survivors Foundation (ASF), which provides support services to women, men and children who have been attacked with acid or petrol in Bangladesh and Anika Rahman, Bangladeshi-American lawyer and former President and CEO of Ms. Foundation for Women. <br />
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- <a href="http://anikarahman.org/about/">Anika Rahman</a>: Women - A Bold Force for Empowerment and Change<br />
- Monira Rahman: From Victim to Change Agent - Experiential Learning from the Acid Survivors<br />
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<b>Speaker Bios</b><br />
<a href="http://anikarahman.org/about/">Anika Rahman</a> is a Bangladeshi-American lawyer and a leader for human rights and social justice. She is a prominent advocate for the advancement of marginalized and vulnerable communities worldwide. Her expertise is focused on human rights, women, health and economic development. Ms. Rahman served as President and CEO of the Ms. Foundation for Women from February 2011 to August 2013. During her tenure, the women's rights organization launched a new rebranding campaign and focused on three key national issues. Prior to that, from 2004 to 2010, she was President of Friends for UNFPA, an NGO that supports the work of the United Nations Population Fund. During her tenure, she campaigned for the restoration of the U.S. government's funding for the United Nations Population Fund. In 2009, President Obama resumed the U.S. government's support for the United Nations Population Fund. Rahman was also the founding director of the International Legal Program of the Center for Reproductive Rights, where she worked from 1993 to 2002. She was a plaintiff in a 2002 lawsuit challenging the Global Gag Rule, also known at the Mexico City Policy. She is the co-author, with Nahid Toubia, of Female Genital Mutilation: A Practical Guide to Worldwide Laws and Policies (2000), published by Zed Books. Ms. Rahman was awarded Women's Enews "21 Leaders for the 21st Century" Award in 2009 and the Lawrence A. Wien Prize for Social Responsibility in 2002 by Columbia Law School. Ms. Rahman is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Ms. Rahman obtained a BA from Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, and her JD from Columbia Law School, before joining the law firm Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton.<br />
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Monira Rahman is a human rights defender, who works to create a society where women live a life free from the fear of violence. As the former Executive Director of the VSO partner organisation Acid Survivors Foundation (ASF) in Bangladesh, Monira has raised awareness and brought about institutional change, including new laws to discourage attackers and prevent future violence. ASF runs a 20-bed hospital and treats 600-700 acid attack survivors annually—many were attacked years ago and never received care. Through ASF, survivors also access mental health services and employment opportunities. In 2005 the Amnesty International German Section awarded her with International Human Rights Award for her extraordinary contribution towards promoting the rights of victims of violence. She was also awarded the prestigious 2011 Human Rights Prize by the French government.<br />
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Established in 2013 with a generous gift from the <a href="http://southasia.berkeley.edu/chowdhury-center-bangladesh-studies">Subir & Malini Chowdhury Center for Bangladesh Studies</a> at UC Berkeley champions the study of Bangladesh’s cultures, peoples and history. The first of its kind in the US, the Center’s mission is to create an innovative model combining research, scholarships, the promotion of art and culture, and the building of ties between institutions in Bangladesh and the University of California.<br />
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“Since the election, my world has been turned upside down in all aspects of life. I’m scared and worried my family won’t be here tomorrow. With the uncertainty, how can I be expected to focus on anything else?” (Undergraduate, Class of 2018)<br />
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In these uncertain times, we invite you to stand with vulnerable members of our campus community by joining us in a fundraiser for the Undocumented Students Program, in memory of Professor Jeffrey Hadler.<br />
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The event will take place on Saturday, March 11, at 3pm at the CycleBar in downtown Berkeley. We will take a 50 minute Spinning (cycling) class to music, with a professional instructor, then linger on for light refreshments. Shoes, towels, and water bottles are all provided.<br />
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Professor Hadler (1969-2017) was a fearless advocate of gender equity and students' rights. To honor his contributions to our campus, and his efforts to support vulnerable populations, we dedicate this event to him.<br />
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FEED, KABIRA, & FoodInno are collaborating with Oakland Bloom to host the first Cultural Food Case Competition at UC Berkeley!<br />
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The first 30 to RSVP will be registered; the rest will be waitlisted<br />
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Students from diverse backgrounds and majors will collaborate to solve a challenging case focused on highlighting the cultural backgrounds of food. The winning solution will be implemented in the development of Oakland Bloom's business. Industry professionals and graduate students will be on hand during the event to mentor teams before they present. <br />
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Oakland Bloom provides education training and hands-on support for aspiring chef entrepreneurs from refugee, immigrant and low-income communities who seek to start their own food businesses. <br />
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SPONSORS:<br />
Our sponsors are Berkeley Food Institute, KIND, and Sweetgreen. <br />
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FOOD:<br />
Sweetgreen will be providing fresh, seasonal, local, and organic salad bowl lunches. KIND will be providing bars!<br />
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9.30: Registration<br />
10.00: Start presentations (prompt + intros of clubs)<br />
10.30: Groups start working on case<br />
12.00: Lunch and sponsor presentations<br />
12.30: Groups prepare for presentations<br />
1.30: Judge introductions and presentations <br />
2.30: Deliberation and winner announcements<br />
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Join us for a new episode of <b>The Graduates</b> as we speak with <b>Luke Bloch in the Department of Integrative Biology</b> at UC Berkeley. Luke is an ornithologist and conservation biologist who studies the evolution and diversification of birds on islands. In the interview, Luke talks about his work in Indonesia, as well as at other field sites around the globe, and describes what it's like trekking up and down tropical mountains to find birds and other animals. On this episode of The Graduates, Luke also tells the story of Darwin's finches, talks about his 'life list', and details his lifelong passion for birds. <br />
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The Graduates, highlighting graduate student research at Berkeley and around the world, is broadcast every other Tuesday at 9AM on KALX 90.7FM and on the web at http://kalx.berkeley.edu. Past episodes are available to listen and download free on iTunes or online. The Graduates is hosted by <b>Tesla Monson, PhD Candidate in the Department of Integrative Biology</b>.http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/sseas.html?event_ID=107847&date=2017-03-14Islamophobia Across the Atlantic: Trump, Europe's Far Right, and the Place of Civil Society, Mar 14http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/sseas.html?event_ID=106942&date=2017-03-14
Islamophobia Across the Atlantic: Trump, Europe's Far Right, and the Place of Civil Society<br />
Dr. Farid Hafez, Islamophobia Research & Documentation Project<br />
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This talk discusses the emergence of Islamophobia in Europe and the USA and its specific role in party politics. It discusses the announcement and introduction of Trump's anti-Muslim policies at the backdrop of precedent policies in Europe. This talk will put Trump's anti-Muslim politics in a global context, looking at the 'Muslim ban', the criminalization of Muslim organizations, and other GOP policy claims from the perspective of transnational networks. At the same time, Hafez discusses the placement of current protest in the implementation of anti-Muslim politics. Although we can speak of a "global post-racial culture" (S. Sayyid) that has taken hold of Western societies, imagining them as post-racial, Hafez argues that the long-standing history of racism in the USA also implies much more resistance to overtly racist speech and acts. In contrast, the wide consent of a post-racial European imaginary allows European dominant societies to implement anti-Muslim legislation without major facing much dissent.http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/sseas.html?event_ID=106942&date=2017-03-14Rita Chattopadhyay | Women, Crime, and Retribution: An Ancient Indian Perspective, Mar 14http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/sseas.html?event_ID=107905&date=2017-03-14
Join us for a talk by Professor Rita Chattopadhyay from the Department of Sanskrit at Jadavpur University, Kolkata.<br />
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<a href="http://www.jaduniv.edu.in/profile.php?uid=247"> Professor Chattopadhyay</a> teaches in the Department of Sanskrit at Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India. She is the author of numerous monographs and edited books on Sanskrit literature and aesthetics, including <i>20th Century Sanskrit Literature: A Glimpse into Tradition and Innovation</i>; <i>Modern Sanskrit Plays: A Sociological Introspection</i>; <i>Modern Sanskrit Dramas of Bengal</i>; and <i>A study of Candravaṃśam: An Unforgettable Sanskrit Poem of a Forgotten Bengali Poet</i>.<br />
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This study examines the early years of California’s most recent wave of distributed solar PV incentives (2000-2008) to determine the pass-through of incentives to consumers. Examination of this period is important due to the high level of incentives provided and subsequent high cost to ratepayers; policymakers’ expectations that price declines accrue to consumers; and market structure characteristics that might contribute to incomplete pass-through. This analysis shows that incentive pass-through in the California residential solar PV programs was incomplete. The analysis also identifies a lower degree of incentive pass-through for consumers in the highest income zip codes. Whether expectations of incentives’ pass-through align with reality is critically important in the beginning years of emerging clean energy technology programs since this can affect the likelihood of future government investments and public support. Given the often-held policy assumption that consumer prices are declining in response to incentives, it is useful for policymakers to understand the circumstances under which such an assumption may not hold. <br />
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Carla J. Peterman was appointed to the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) by Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. in December 2012. She is the CPUC’s assigned Commissioner for a number of proceedings including energy efficiency, alternative transportation, and energy storage.<br />
Dr. Peterman was previously appointed, in 2011, to the California Energy Commission where she was lead Commissioner for renewables, transportation, and natural gas. <br />
She has conducted research at the Energy Institute at Haas and the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and was an investment banker focused on energy financing at Lehman Brothers. <br />
Dr. Peterman holds a Doctor of Philosophy in Energy and Resources from The University of California Berkeley. She also earned a Master of Science degree and a Master of Business Administration degree from Oxford University, where she was a Rhodes Scholar. Commissioner Peterman holds a Bachelor of Arts in History from Howard University.http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/sseas.html?event_ID=106696&date=2017-03-15Isha Ray and Robin Marsh | Adaptation and Recovery after the 2015 Nepal Earthquakes, Mar 16http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/sseas.html?event_ID=105272&date=2017-03-16
The Himalayan Studies Program at the Institute for South Asia Studies invites you to a talk by UC Berkeley water specialist Professor Isha Ray and Dr. Robin Marsh, Resident Researcher, Institute for the Study of Societal Issues on their recent work in Nepal.<br />
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<b> About the Speakers</b><br />
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<a href="https://erg.berkeley.edu/people/ray-isha/">Isha Ray</a> joined the faculty of the Energy and Resources Group in 2002. She has a BA in Philosophy, Politics and Economics from Somerville College, Oxford University, and a PhD in Applied Economics from the Food Research Institute at Stanford University. She is the Co-Director of the Berkeley Water Center and a Faculty member of the Institute for South Asia Studies.<br />
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Professor Ray’s research interests are water, sanitation and development; water and gender; technology and development; and common property resources. Her research projects focus on access to water and sanitation for the rural and urban poor, and on the role of technology in improving livelihoods. She teaches courses on research methods in the social sciences, water and development, technology and development, and community-driven development. In addition to research and teaching, she has extensive past and ongoing experience in the non-profit sector on sustainable development, water, and gender equality.<br />
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<a href="http://blogs.berkeley.edu/author/rmarsh/">Robin Marsh</a>, a researcher at the Institute for Study of Societal Issues (ISSI) at UC Berkeley, is a socio-economist with more than 25 years of experience in international agriculture, rural development and leadership development. She joined UC Berkeley in 2000 as academic coordinator of the Center for Sustainable Resource Development and co-director of the Beahrs Environmental Leadership Program (2000-2013), joining ISSI in 2014. She lectures in the field of Population, Environment and Development, and is affiliate faculty with The Blum Center for Developing Economies and the Berkeley Food Institute. <br />
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Marsh was a founding partner in developing the MasterCard Foundation Scholars Program at Berkeley which funds sub-Saharan African undergrads and MA students to attend UC Berkeley (2012-2020). She is lead researcher on a multi-university project examining the career and life trajectories of African alumni of international universities (www.africanalumni.berkeley.edu).<br />
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Marsh is currently leading a campus-wide initiative to provide research and training inputs to the East African Learning Lab for Population, Health and Environment. She is a fellow with EcoAgriculture Partners and the associated global initiative, Landscapes for People, Food and Nature. She received her Ph.D. from the Food Research Institute, Stanford University.<br />
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This paper discusses the inadvertent effects of transforming the marked into the marketable on the mundane strategies of “making a living,” both economically and cosmologically, in Buddhist Siberia. Building on anthropological discussions on marketing ethnicity, it tracks attempts to develop a regional brand in Buryatia, a self-governing republic within the Russian Federation that derives its political status from being home to an ethnically Mongol minority. Tracking local efforts to develop “Buryatia’s brand,” I am interested in what happens when local ethno-branding projects run up against and must make themselves legible to the state’s narratives and imaginaries of its national and international identity. In the context of present day Russia examined here, branding ethnicity is a complicated political gambit, in part because the state’s self-presentation has been fluctuating between privileging radical plurality on the one hand and, on the other, laying claims to equally radical cultural and ideological homogeneity. By looking at an instance of ethno-branding “at the edges” – in a region that has historically been situated at the periphery of several, competing spheres of political influence, the paper interrogates how the regimes of value that underpin ethno-branding work alongside a self-conscious politics of marginality.http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/sseas.html?event_ID=105162&date=2017-03-21ERG Colloquium: Terry Deacon, Mar 22http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/sseas.html?event_ID=106697&date=2017-03-22
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The dynamics contributing to human ecosystem degradation and human-influenced run-away climate change exhibit properties common to all so-called self-organized processes. These properties characterize both organic and inorganic far-from-equilibrium systems. Principal among these properties is accelerated entropy production—not merely entropy increase, but an increase in the rate of energy and material throughout as flows become increasingly regularized and correlated. While the physical analysis of these processes in diverse but simple inorganic systems (e.g. vortices, Benárd convection, laser light amplification) is becoming well understood, their characterization in living organisms and human socio-eco-systems is mostly understood only by analogy. One blind spot in our understanding of these processes has been the tendency to equate the dynamics of living organisms with that of self-organizing processes in general. Although organisms depend on self-organized processes to generate critical dynamical regularities and structures, these processes are regulated so that they do not tend to run to exhaustion but stabilize their flows so that critical organization can be maintained, repaired, and reproduced. Terrence Deacon will present a simple model for the transition from self-organized chemistry to a self-regulated unit system, called an autogen, that is self-preserving, self-repairing, and capable of evolving. I will use this to illustrate how self-organized processes can be organized to reciprocally regulate each other. Though contemporary human techno-econo-ecology exhibits a far more complex run-away self-organizing dynamic, the transition from run-away self-organized chemistry to life (at its origin) may offer hints for understanding our current eco-dilemma.<br />
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Professor Deacon's research has combined human evolutionary biology and neuroscience, with the aim of investigating the evolution of human cognition. His work extends from laboratory-based cellular-molecular neurobiology to the study of semiotic processes underlying animal and human communication, especially language. Many of these interests are explored in his 1997 book, The Symbolic Species: The Coevolution of Language and the Brain.<br />
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His neurobiological research is focused on determining the nature of the human divergence from typical primate brain anatomy, the cellular-molecular mechanisms producing this difference, and the correlations between these anatomical differences and special human cognitive abilities, particularly language.<br />
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His theoretical interests include the study of evolution-like processes at many levels, including their role in embryonic development, neural signal processing, language change, and social processes, and how these different processes interact and depend on each other. Currently, his theoretical interests have focused on the problem of explaining emergent phenomena, such as characterize such apparently unprecedented transitions as the origin of life, the evolution of language, and the generation of conscious experience by brains.http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/sseas.html?event_ID=106697&date=2017-03-22The Study of Contacts Between Cultures: The Case of Sino-European Encounters in the Seventeenth Century, Mar 22http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/sseas.html?event_ID=103480&date=2017-03-22
This is the keynote lecture of the multi-day workshop Translating Religion and Theology in Europe and Asia: East to West.<br />
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This presentation takes theories of communication and philosophy of alterity as a starting point to study the methodology of the history of contact between cultures. It first discusses three different frameworks that have been employed in the study of the cultural contacts between China and Europe in the seventeenth century: the transmission, reception and invention frameworks. Next, the presentation proposes a fourth framework, the interaction and communication framework, which develops the previous frameworks by stressing the reciprocity in the interaction between transmitter and receiver and centers around the notion of “in-­betweenness.”<br />
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Nicolas Standaert is professor of Sinology at the University of Leuven, Belgium. His recent publications include: <i>The Intercultural Weaving of Historical Texts: Chinese and European Stories about Emperor Ku and His Concubines</i>, Leiden: Brill, 2016; <i>Chinese Voices in the Rites Controversy: Travelling Books, Community Networks, Intercultural Arguments</i>, Rome: Institutum Historicum Societatis Iesu, 2012; <i>The Interweaving of Rituals: Funerals in the Cultural Exchange between China and Europe</i>, Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2008.http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/sseas.html?event_ID=103480&date=2017-03-22Eye on South Asia: Challenges to Development and Democracy in Afghanistan, Bangladesh, India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, and Nepal, Mar 22http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/sseas.html?event_ID=106142&date=2017-03-22
Home to 1.7 billion people, South Asia was the world’s fastest growing economic region in 2016, and is expected to hold this spot in 2017. However, South Asian countries continue to face daunting challenges of persistent poverty, widening inequality, and growing instability. Over the long term, prospects for inclusive growth will depend heavily on the region’s ability to address fundamental governance issues: managing conflict, reducing corruption, increasing transparency, expanding access to justice, and increasing citizens’ voice and participation.<br />
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Join experts from The Asia Foundation’s country offices in Afghanistan, Bangladesh, India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, and Nepal for a dynamic panel discussion on the prospects for democracy, stability, and sustainable development in South Asia.<br />
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<b><a href="http://asiafoundation.org/people/abdullah-ahmadzai/">Abdullah Ahmadzai</a></b> is The Asia Foundation’s County Representative in Afghanistan. He oversees the Foundation’s wide range of programs in the areas of Governance and Elections, Islam and Development, Women’s Empowerment and Education, as well as the annual Survey of the Afghan People. Ahmadzai served as the Deputy Country Representative from 2012 to 2014. A seasoned development professional with expertise in national election administration, Ahmadzai was formerly Chief Electoral Officer for the Independent Election Commission (IEC) of Afghanistan. As head of the IEC Secretariat, he oversaw the 2010 elections for the Lower House of the Afghan Parliament; the first fully “Afghanized” national election involving limited technical support from the international community. Prior to his position with the IEC, from June 2006 to October 2009, Abdullah Ahmadzai worked with the Foundation, serving under the Support to Center of Government project in Afghanistan, first as a Senior National Capacity Building Advisor and later as Deputy Chief of Party and Chief of Party. In each of these roles with the Foundation, Ahmadzai served with distinction. Between 2004 and 2006, he held positions with the UN under the Joint Electoral Management Body Secretariat (JEMBS), first as an Area Manager and then as Chief of Operations.<br />
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<b><a href="http://asiafoundation.org/people/hasan-mazumdar/">Hasan Mazumdar</a></b> joined the Asia Foundation as Bangladesh Country Representative in December 2009. The Foundation’s Bangladesh office supports programs on political and economic governance, rule of law, human rights, women’s empowerment, economic growth, climate change/environment, and regional programs. Prior to joining the Foundation, he held the position of Country Director of CARE Pakistan where he was responsible for ensuring proper utilization of an annual portfolio of around US $20 million on various development interventions such as economic growth, education, good governance, SME/ enterprise development, promoting Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), workforce development, and facilitating private and public partnerships with a special focus on women’s empowerment. Prior to his assignment in Pakistan, Hasan was CARE’s deputy country director in Bangladesh, where he assisted in leading and administering a $40 million 25 project program with 800 employees and was responsible for the management of program portfolio finance, administration, and human resources.<br />
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<b><a href="http://asiafoundation.org/people/sagar-prasai/">Sagar Prasai</a></b> is The Asia Foundation’s country representative in India. He was formerly the deputy country representative in Nepal. His current work involves regional cooperation in South Asia with a particular focus on water, trade, and migration; transnational political economy; urban governance and women’s security. Prasai has worked with governmental as well as multilateral organizations on urban management, local governance, conflict, and political processes. He previously served as a programming advisor to the National Planning Commission of Nepal, and as a district development advisor to the United Nations Development Program in Nepal. He has led several political economy analysis studies for The Asia Foundation including <i>Drivers of Legitimacy in Nepal</i> (2007), <i>Political Economy of Local Governance in Nepal</i> (2012), and <i>Political Economy Analysis and Stakeholder Mapping of the Teesta Basin</i> (2012). His articles have appeared in South Asian and global journals, portals and blogs. He is the author of the book Revisiting Transnational Migration-Development Nexus: Using Capability Approach in Migration Research.<br />
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<b><a href="http://asiafoundation.org/people/sofia-shakil/">Sofia Shakil</a></b> is the Asia Foundation Country Representative in Pakistan. Educated as a policy economist, Sofia brings over 20 years of experience in the human development sector, with a focus on education, public sector policy, and governance reform. She has held several full-time and consulting positions with the World Bank, Asian Development Bank, international NGOs, multi-lateral organizations and donors. From 2013-2016, Sofia served as Senior Education Specialist at the Asian Development Bank, where she led project operations and policy research and advisory work in human development in the People’s Republic of China and Mongolia. Prior to that, she served three years as an Education Sector Focal Point for Sri Lanka and the Maldives. Among her many achievements at the ADB, Sofia successfully designed and obtained approval for the first Results Based Lending Program loan ($200 million) for ADB in Sri Lanka, prepared the education assessment and roadmap for the country partnership strategies for Sri Lanka, Mongolia, and the PRC, developed the human resource development strategy as part of the Tourism Master Plan for the Maldives, and led projects and policy work in the areas of vocational education reform, elder care services, and graduate employment initiatives. <br />
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<b><a href="http://asiafoundation.org/people/dinesha-de-silva/">Dinesha de Silva</a></b> is currently The Asia Foundation’s country representative in Sri Lanka. Previously, she served as team leader for The Foundation’s Sri Lanka Local Economic Governance program (2010-2012), as assistant director in the Foundation’s Washington D.C. office, (2008 – 2010), and was formerly assistant representative in the Foundation’s Sri Lanka office. She has two decades of experience in the field of international development, with special interest and experience in economic governance, rule of law, access to justice, and conflict resolution. From 1995 to 1997, Dinesha de Silva was director of the Foundation’s USAID-funded Citizen Participation (CIPART) Project in Colombo. She also previously served with the Foundation as a program officer for Sri Lanka and the Maldives from 1991 to 1992, focusing on English-language education, women’s empowerment, media development, and economic liberalization. In between positions with the Foundation, she served as a project management specialist for USAID in Colombo in the private sector development office. She also previously served as an economist for the Environmental Foundation Ltd. and for six years as an economist for the Central Bank of Sri Lanka.<br />
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<b><a href="http://asiafoundation.org/people/george-varughese/">George Varughese</a></b> has been The Asia Foundation’s country representative in Nepal since May 2009, where he oversees a broad range of programs that support an effective political transition, including constitutional development and assistance to the Constituent Assembly; facilitate conflict transformation, peacebuilding, and alternate dispute resolution; safeguard women’s security and combat the trafficking of persons; support public policy analysis and engagement; and enable local economic governance and opportunity. During the 2015-16 academic year George Varughese served as Visiting Professor and Senior Scholar in the University of Wyoming’s Global and Area Studies program. Prior to this position in Kathmandu, Varughese was The Asia Foundation’s country representative in Afghanistan, where his responsibilities included overseeing capacity-building initiatives in the center of Afghan government; supporting electoral management capacity building; women’s advancement; and public education and discourse on democratic political processes. His achievements include spearheading the internationally-respected annual Survey of the Afghan People and its companion studies on state building and developmental challenges in Afghanistan; and advocating and helping lead investment in Afghan sub-national governance.<br />
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<b>About <a href="http://asiafoundation.org/">The Asia Foundation</a></b>: The Asia Foundation is a nonprofit international development organization committed to improving lives across a dynamic and developing Asia. Informed by six decades of experience and deep local expertise, our work across the region addresses five overarching goals—strengthen governance, empower women, expand economic opportunity, increase environmental resilience, and promote international cooperation. Headquartered in San Francisco, The Asia Foundation works in 18 country office across Asia and Washington, DC. Working with public and private partners, the Foundation receives funding from a diverse group of bilateral and multilateral development agencies, foundations, corporations, and individuals. In 2015, we provided more than $95 million in direct program support and distributed textbooks and other educational materials valued at over $10 million.<br />
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Event made possible with the support of the <a href="http://southasia.berkeley.edu/sarah-kailath-chair-memorial-lecture">Sarah Kailath Chair of India Studies</a><br />
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The Centers for Japanese Studies and Buddhist Studies at the University of California, Berkeley, together with Ōtani University and Ryūkoku University in Kyoto announce a workshop under the supervision of Mark Blum that will focus on critically examining premodern and modern hermeneutics of the Tannishō, a core text of the Shin sect of Buddhism, and arguably the most well-read religious text in postwar Japan. Beginning in 2017, the workshop will continue for five years, meeting twice a year for 3 to 4 days each time, in late March in Berkeley and early August in Kyoto, where it will be hosted alternately by Ōtani and Ryūkoku universities. Organized around close readings of the most influential materials produced in early modern, modern, and postmodern Japan, the workshop aims at producing a critical, annotated translation detailing the salient ways in which this text has been both inspirational and controversial, as well as a series of essays analyzing a wide spectrum of voices in Japanese scholarship and preaching that have spoken on this work. For the early modern or Edo period, the commentaries by Enchi (1662), Jinrei (1801-1808), and Ryōshō (1841) will be examined. For the modern period, works by Andō Shūichi (1909), Chikazumi Jōkan (1930), and Soga Ryōjin (1947) will be the major concern. And for the postwar/postmodern period, due to the sheer volume of publications (over 300 titles), reading choices will be selected at a later date in consultation with participants.<br />
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<b>Format</b>: The language of instruction will be primarily English with only minimal Japanese spoken as needed, and while the texts will be in primarily in Classical Japanese and Modern Japanese, with some outside materials in kanbun and English. Participants will be expected to prepare the assigned readings, and on occasion make relevant presentations in English about content.<br />
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<b>Dates</b>: Exact dates will vary from year to year based on academic calendars, but for 2017 the meeting hosted by U.C. Berkeley will take place from the 25th to the 27th of March at the Jōdo Shinshū Center in Berkeley, and in Kyoto the seminar will be hosted by Ōtani University from the 4th to the 7th of August.<br />
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<b>Cost:</b> There is no participation fee, but in recognition of the distance some will have to travel to attend, a limited number of travel fellowships will be provided to qualified graduate students, based on preparedness, need, and commitment to the project.<br />
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<b>Participation Requirements:</b> Although any qualified applicant will be welcome to register, graduate students will be particularly welcome and the only recipients of financial assistance in the form of travel fellowships. Affiliation with one of the three hosting universities is not required. We welcome the participation of graduate students outside of Japan with some reading ability in Modern and Classical Japanese and familiarity with Buddhist thought and culture as well as native-speaking Japanese graduate students with a scholarly interest in Buddhism. Although we welcome students attending both meetings each year, participation in only one is acceptable.<br />
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<b>Application Procedure:</b> Applications must be sent for each year that one wants to participate. To apply to register for either or both of the workshops for 2017, send C.V. and short letter explaining your qualifications, motivations, and objectives to Kumi Hadler at cjs@berkeley.edu by <b>February 10, 2017</b>. Applications are by email only, and application deadlines will remain as end-January in subsequent years as well. Requests for a travel fellowship money should be included in this letter with specifics of where you will be traveling from and if you plan to attend one or both meetings that year. Questions about the content of the workshop may be sent to Professor Blum at mblum@berkeley.edu.http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/sseas.html?event_ID=106640&date=2017-03-25Free Opening Week at the Hearst Museum of Anthropology, Apr 3-9http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/sseas.html?event_ID=107485&date=2017-04-03
Why do we sometimes know a lot about who made things, and why do we sometimes not? Why does it sometimes matter to us, and why might it sometimes not? These are the questions that will be raised in the exhibit that will inaugurate the Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology’s renovated Kroeber Hall Gallery. The Museum will display objects from the collection that urge visitors to think critically about how perceptions of makers have varied in different times and different places. Objects such as ancient Peruvian jars, Tibetan Buddhist paintings, and Wedgwood china tell diverse stories of makers whose identities are obscure; a Yoruba divining tray, Karuk Indian baskets, and colorful Guatemalan textiles embody rich personal accounts of craftsmanship. Visitors are invited to reflect on the makers of their lives and share their stories. The exhibit will incorporate objects contributed by community members that illustrate the theme's relevance to everyday life. The newly redesigned space, replete with warm woods and comfortable seating areas, will create a pleasing environment for audiences of all kinds.<br />
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The exhibit will open April 3. All visitors will receive free admission from April 3 to April 9.http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/sseas.html?event_ID=107485&date=2017-04-03CANCELED: ATC Lecture – Tiffany Chung “Remapping History: The Unwanted Population”, Apr 3http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/sseas.html?event_ID=106063&date=2017-04-03
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Tiffany Chung will discuss her comparative study of forced migration through the current global refugee crises, most notably the ongoing Syrian humanitarian crisis, and the post-1975 Vietnamese mass exodus. The Syria Project consists of cartographic works tracing the colonial partitioning of the Middle East with politically constructed borders, and mapping areas of conflict and the growing numbers of refugee camps, tracking statistical data related to deaths, refugee and IDP numbers. The Vietnam Exodus Project unpacks important asylum policies that were emerged and imposed on the Vietnamese refugees through artistic forms and discussion platforms, providing insights into the constant shifts in international asylum policy making on already traumatized and distressed people.<br />
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The lecture will look into Chung’s extensive academic research and ethnographic fieldwork – as well as how the accumulated figures, archival records and lived-experience of the displaced population are rendered into infographic topographies, paintings and text-based works. Chung will also discuss the complexity of reconstructing histories with fluctuating data and shifting boundaries, and her commitment to challenging the politically driven historical amnesia in countries currently under dictatorship.<br />
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Tiffany Chung is internationally noted for her exquisite cartographic drawings and installations that examine conflict, migration, displacement, urban progress and transformation in relation to history and cultural memory. Conducting intensive studies on the impacts of geographical shifts and imposed political borders on different groups of human populations, Chung’s work excavates layers of history, re-writes chronicles of places, and creates interventions into the spatial and political narratives produced through statecraft.<br />
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Selected museum exhibitions and biennials include: Insecurities: Tracing Displacement and Shelter, MoMA, New York, USA; IMPERMANENCIA Mutable Art in a Materialist Society, XIII Bienal de Cuenca, Ecuador; 10th Taipei Biennial, Taiwan; Still (The) Barbarians, EVA International – Ireland’s Biennial; Illumination, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Denmark; Sonsbeek, Museum Arnhem, Netherlands; All The World’s Futures, 56th Venice Biennale, Italy; Our Land/Alien Territory, Museum & Exhibition Center ‘Manege’, Moscow, Russia; My Voice Would Reach You, Rice University & Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, USA; Residual: Disrupted Choreographies, Carré d’Art – Musée d’Art Contemporain, Nîmes, France; Sharjah Biennial, UAE; California Pacific Triennial, Newport Beach, USA; 7th Asia Pacific Triennial, Brisbane, Australia; and Six Lines of Flight, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, USA.<br />
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Berkeley’s Art, Technology, and Culture Colloquium is an internationally recognized forum for presenting new ideas that challenge conventional wisdom about art, technology, and culture. This series, free of charge and open to the public, presents artists, writers, curators, and scholars who consider contemporary issues at the intersection of aesthetic expression, emerging technologies, and cultural history, from a critical perspective.http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/sseas.html?event_ID=106063&date=2017-04-03Duterte’s Violent “Right” Populism in the Philippines, Apr 4http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/sseas.html?event_ID=106324&date=2017-04-04
Since becoming Philippine President in July 2016 Rodrigo R. Duterte has launched a violent crackdown on drugs, with nearly 7,000 people killed (as of January 2017) from police “encounters” and vigilante killings. Elected in a free and fair election in May 2016, Duterte’s regime is post-liberal but not (yet) explicitly anti-democratic, with the press still free and the powers of Congress and the Courts not yet formally curtailed. Duterte’s appeal differs from “left” populist politicians in the Philippines who have focused on social remedies for poverty and inequality. Although Duterte has established close ties to the far left, promised greater commitment to solving socio-economic problems, and taken a nationalist stance against the U.S., he has implemented the sub-national authoritarian “Davao model” nationally, using “violence as spectacle” to discourage investigation of the killings and convey the political message that he will punish “evil” while protecting ordinary “good” people. For many Filipinos, this state violence has created a sense of political order amidst weak institutions. Duterte’s “right” populism shows some similarities to illiberalism elsewhere in Southeast Asia but differs in important respects from “rich world” right populism represented by Trump and the European far right.<br />
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Mark R. Thompson (Ph.D., Yale University) is head of the Department of Asian and International Studies (AIS) and director of the Southeast Asia Research Centre (SEARC) at the City University of Hong Kong. He is the author of <i>The Anti-Marcos Struggle</i> (1995), <i>Democratic Revolutions</i> (2004), co-editor of <i>Dynasties and Female Political Leaders in Asia</i> (2013), and the author of a number of journal articles on Asian politics, most recently “Democracy with Asian Characteristics” in the <i>Journal of Asian Studies</i> and “The Vote in the Philippines: Electing a Strongman” (together with Julio Teehankee) in the <i>Journal of Democracy</i> (October 2016). He is editor of a forthcoming special issue on the early Duterte presidency for the ,i>Journal of Current Southeast Asian Affairs</i> and is currently completing a co-authored book manuscript about the Philippine presidency.http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/sseas.html?event_ID=106324&date=2017-04-042017 Bay Area WASH symposium, Apr 5http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/sseas.html?event_ID=108352&date=2017-04-05
Berkeley will host the 2017 Bay Area WASH symposium, an annual event that brings together faculty and student researchers working on water, health, and sanitation from UC-Berkeley, Stanford, UC-Davis, UC-Santa Cruz, and other Bay Area institutions.<br />
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This year, the event is student organized and will have a semi-formal structure where students will have an opportunity to share information about current and future projects, to identify opportunities for new collaborations, and to foster dialogue and networking within and across our institutions. <br />
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Because space is limited, attendance is by invitation only. <br />
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Panel Speakers:<br />
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Job opportunities in the WASH sector<br />
Angela Harris, Instructor, CEE, Stanford University<br />
Ashley Muspratt, Founder & CEO, Pivot<br />
Sebastien Tilmans, Researcher, Codiga Resource Recovery Center at Stanford<br />
Gordon Williams, Associate Civil Engineer, EBMUD<br />
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As the primary means for growth and development over the past two centuries, industry has played a central role in generating our current Anthropocene. The increasing impacts of climate change bring the industrial sector to the fore as the largest emitter of greenhouse gases and as a potential manufacturer of transformational technologies and infrastructure. The U.S. industrial sector is emblematic of the deindustrializing strain of recent transformation: CO2 emissions dropped by 20% between 2000 and 2015, while the sector shed 5 million jobs and increased real value added by 14%. In this colloquium, Nate Aden presents his research on the drivers and components of U.S. industrial sector emissions mitigation. Beyond the U.S., the second focus is on the varied role of the industrial sector in the growing country-level decoupling of GDP and carbon emissions that has occurred since 2000. The resulting wrenching economic and social transitions, including employment churn and income redistribution, have sowed the conditions for populism—the final portion of the colloquium explores policy options for addressing the outcomes of industrial transformation.<br />
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Nate Aden has published on energy and climate for more than ten years. In addition to researching his Ph.D. with the Energy and Resources Group, Nate is also a Senior Fellow with the World Resources Institute. Prior to joining WRI, Nate conducted energy efficiency research with the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Over five years with LBL, Nate’s projects were focused on energy efficiency policy, assessment of Chinese urban form energy use and emissions, Chinese energy data, China energy and climate scenario analysis, the coal sector, and the steel sector. Prior to LBL, Nate lived in Shanghai for 2 years, where he worked for the U.S. Consulate.http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/sseas.html?event_ID=106698&date=2017-04-05The Reluctant Fundamentalist | New Directions in Indian Cinema, Apr 5http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/sseas.html?event_ID=107998&date=2017-04-05
ISAS is proud to announce the 5th Sarah Kailath Memorial Lecture - a lecture series on the theme of Women and Leadership. <br />
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Our fifth Sarah Kailath Memorial lecture will be delivered by acclaimed film director Mira Nair.<br />
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Preceding Mira Nair's lecture on Sunday, May 7, we will be screening the following selected films from her vast collection: <br />
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<b>Wed, April 5 @ 5:30 pm in 10 Stephens Hall</b>: <br />
<a href="http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/csas.html?event_ID=107998"><b>The Reluctant Fundamentalist | New Directions in Indian Cinema</b></a> <br />
<i>The Reluctant Fundamentalist is a 2012 political thriller drama film based on the 2007 novel, The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid, directed by Mira Nair, starring Riz Ahmed and Kate Hudson in lead. A young Pakistani man is chasing corporate success on Wall Street. He finds himself embroiled in a conflict between his American Dream, a hostage crisis, and the enduring call of his family's homeland.</i><br />
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<b>RSVP for this film <a href="http://bit.ly/ISASTRF">HERE</a></b><br />
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Other Mira Nair-related events below:<br />
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FILM SCREENING | Wed, April 12 @ 5 pm in 10 Stephens Hall: <br />
<a href="http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/csas.html?event_ID=107999"><b>The Namesake | New Directions in Indian Cinema</b></a> <br />
<i>The Namesake is a 2006 Indian-American drama film which was released in the United States on 9 March 2007, following screenings at film festivals in Toronto and New York City.</i><br />
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FILM SCREENING | Wed, April 19 @ 5 pm in 10 Stephens Hall: <br />
<a href="http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/csas.html?event_ID=108000&date=2017-04-19&filter=Target/Open%20To%20Audiences&filtersel="><b>Mississippi Masala | New Directions in Indian Cinema</b></a> <br />
<i>Mississippi Masala a 1991 romantic drama film directed by Mira Nair, based upon a screenplay by Sooni Taraporevala, starring Denzel Washington, Sarita Choudhury, and Roshan Seth.</i><br />
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FILM SCREENING | Wed, April 26 @ 5 pm in 10 Stephens Hall: <br />
<a href="http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/csas.html?event_ID=108001&date=2017-04-26&filter=Target/Open%20To%20Audiences&filtersel="><b>Queen of Katwe | New Directions in Indian Cinema</b></a> <br />
<i>Queen of Katwe (2016) is the colorful true story of a young girl selling corn on the streets of rural Uganda whose world rapidly changes when she is introduced to the game of chess.</i><br />
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FILM SCREENING | Wed, May 3 @ 5 pm in 10 Stephens Hall: <br />
<a href="http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/csas.html?event_ID=108002"><b>Monsoon Wedding | New Directions in Indian Cinema</b></a> <br />
<i>Monsoon Wedding is a 2001 film that explores the bonds that unite families in touching, dramatic, and comedic ways.</i><br />
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LECTURE | Sunday, May 7 @ 3 pm in Chevron Auditorium, International House: <br />
<a href="http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/csas.html?event_ID=107834&date=2017-05-07&filter=Target/Open%20To%20Audiences&filtersel="><b>The 5th Sarah Kailath Memorial Lecture by Mira Nair</b></a><br />
<i>This lecture series has been established in memory of Sarah Kailath (February 5 1941 - October 15, 2008), a long-time supporter of ISAS’s mission and activities and in whose name the center holds an endowed chair titled the "Sarah Kailath Chair in India Studies."</i>.<br />
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PLAY | Friday, May 5 to June 25 at the Berkeley Rep: <br />
<a href="https://www.berkeleyrep.org/season/1617/10662.asp#tabbed-nav=info"><b>Monsoon Wedding: The Musical</b></a><br />
<i>Award-winning film director Mira Nair brings her exuberant and sumptuous Monsoon Wedding to Berkeley Rep’s stage in this highly anticipated world premiere musical.</i><br />
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Event made possible with the support of the <a href="http://southasia.berkeley.edu/sarah-kailath-chair-memorial-lecture/">Sarah Kailath Chair of India Studies</a><br />
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Join us for a talk by Stanford anthropologist and leading contemporary commentator on religious and political violence in India, Dr. Thomas Blom Hansen. <br />
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<b>Talk Abstract</b><br />
Many urban scholars assume that global capital flows, commodification and capitalization of land universally affect urban areas all over the globe. However, not all spaces are equally amenable to commodification or gentrification and in many cases the specific historical character of a city, a neighborhood or an urban space tends to stick to it for many generations. What happened in a space, which community or class was associated with it, leave marks that do not easily disappear. This is particularly true in post-colonial cities marked by deep historical segmentation along race, class and community. Drawing on material from India (and South Africa) Dr. Hansen will show how religious markers and boundaries of caste, race and community get etched onto the urban imagination. These markers and memories profoundly and durably structure the use and habitation of urban space. Such deeper historical dynamics must be at the heart of a more global urban theory for the 21st century. <br />
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<b> About the Speaker</b><br />
Thomas Hansen is the Reliance-Dhirubhai Ambani Professor in South Asian Studies and Professor in Anthropology. He is also the Director of Stanford’s Center for South Asia where he is charged with building a substantial new program. He has many and broad interests spanning South Asia and Southern Africa, several cities and multiple theoretical and disciplinary interests from political theory and continental philosophy to psychoanalysis, comparative religion and contemporary urbanism.<br />
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Much of Professor Hansen’s fieldwork was done during the tumultuous and tense years in the beginning of the 1990s when conflicts between Hindu militants and Muslims defined national agendas and produced frequent violent clashes in the streets. Out of this work came two books: <a href="http://press.princeton.edu/titles/6652.html<br />
"> The Saffron Wave. Democracy and Hindu Nationalism in Modern India</a> (Princeton 1999) which explores the larger phenomenon of Hindu nationalism in the light of the dynamics of India’s democratic experience, and <a href="http://press.princeton.edu/titles/7189.html<br />
"> Wages of Violence: Naming and Identity in Postcolonial Bombay</a> (Princeton 2001) which explores the historical processes and contemporary conflicts that led to the rise of violent socioreligious conflict and the renaming of the city in 1995.<br />
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During the last decade, Professor Hansen has pursued a detailed study of religious revival, racial conflict and transformation of domestic and intimate life from the 1950’s to the present in a formerly Indian township in Durban, South Africa. This round of work has now resulted in a book entitled <a href="http://press.princeton.edu/titles/9757.html">Melancholia of Freedom: Anxiety, Race and Everyday Life in a South African Township</a> (Princeton University Press, 2012). In addition to these ethnographic engagements, Professor Hansen has pursued a number of theoretical interests in the anthropology of the state, sovereignty, violence and urban life. This has resulted in a range of co-edited volumes, and special issues of journals such as <i>Critique of Anthropology and African Studies</i>. He is currently working on a collection of theoretical and ethnographic essays provisionally entitled <i>Public Passions and Modern Convictions</i>.<br />
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Event made possible with the support of the <a href="http://southasia.berkeley.edu/sarah-kailath-chair-memorial-lecture">Sarah Kailath Chair of India Studies</a><br />
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ISAS is proud to announce the launch of a new annual lecture series, the <a href="http://southasia.berkeley.edu/bhattacharya-lectureship">Bhattacharya Lectureship on the Future of India</a>, a lecture series that asks leading thinkers—scholars, artists, activists, political, economic, and social leaders—to address the possibilities and challenges for India in the future. <br />
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The lectureship is supported by <a href="http://southasia.berkeley.edu/bhattacharya-india-fund">The Bhattacharya India Fund</a>, a fund established in 2016 by Kimi and Shankar Bhattacharya, both longtime supporters of Bangla Studies at Berkeley and of the ISAS. In addition to the lectureship, the fund also provides funding to UC Berkeley graduate students to undertake research travel to India (two awards of $1000 each) or domestic conference travel for presentations on topics related to contemporary India (four awards of $500 each). <br />
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Our inaugural lecture in this series will be delivered by Author and Historian, Ramachandra Guha.<br />
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<b>About the Speaker</b><br />
Ramachandra Guha is an author and columnist based in Bangalore. Born in Dehradun in 1958, he studied at St.Stephen’s College, the Delhi School of Economics, and the Indian Institute of Management at Kolkata, where he wrote a doctoral thesis on the history and prehistory of the Chipko movement. Now a full-time writer, he has previously taught at the universities of Yale and Stanford, held the Arné Naess Chair at the University of Oslo, and been the Sundaraja Visiting Professor at the Indian Institute of Science. In 2011-2 he will occupy the prestigious Phillipe Roman Chair in History and International Affairs at the London School of Economics.<br />
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Guha’s books include a pioneering environmental history, <i>The Unquiet Woods</i> (Oxford University Press, 1989); <i>Savaging the Civilized</i> (University of Chicago Press, 1999), <i>A life of the anthropologist-activist Verrier Elwin</i> which the Times Literary Supplement called the ‘best biography by an Indian for many years’, an award-winning social history of cricket, <i>A Corner of a Foreign Field</i> (Picador), and <i>India after Gandhi</i> (Picador, 2007), a widely discussed (and also award-winning) history of India since independence. His most recent publication is <i>Gandhi before India</i>, a book on Mohandas Gandhi’s years in South Africa. <br />
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Aside from his scholarly work, Guha writes regularly on social and political issues for the general public. Between 1997 and 2009 he wrote a fortnightly column for The Hindu, India’s national newspaper. He now writes columns in The Telegraph and the Hindustan Times, with these articles appearing in translation in other Indian newspapers (such as Hindustan, Dainik Bhaskar, Prajavani, and Andhra Jyoti). Guha’s awards include the Leopold-Hidy Prize of the American Society of Environmental History, the Daily Telegraph/Cricket Society prize, the R. K. Narayan Prize, and the Padma Bhushan. The New York Times has referred to him as ‘perhaps the best among India’s non fiction writers’; Time Magazine has called him ‘Indian democracy’s preeminent chronicler’. <br />
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The <a href="http://southasia.berkeley.edu/bhattacharya-india-fund">Bhattacharya India Fund</a> was established in Fall 2016 with a generous gift from Kimi and Shankar Bhattacharya, UC Berkeley alums and longtime supporters of Bangla Studies at Berkeley and of the ISAS. This new fund supports two critical programs, the annual Bhattacharya Lectureship on the Future of India, and the Bhattacharya Graduate Fellowship. The Lectureship asks leading thinkers—scholars, artists, activists, political, economic, and social leaders—to address the possibilities and challenges for India in the future. The competitive Fellowship enables us to support the best graduate student research in India and research dissemination at conferences.<br />
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<a href="http://enacte.org/production/soundwaves/"><b>SHOW TIMES</b></a><br />
Fri, April 7: 8 PM <br />
Sat, April 8: 2 PM and 6 PM<br />
Sun, April 9: 2 PM and 6 PM<br />
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<i>‘The universe is made of sound. There is no solid matter. Nothing apparently solid lasts. Everything is made of waves.’<br />
– Joe Martin, SoundWaves: The Passion of Noor Inayat Khan</i><br />
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<b>'SoundWaves: The Passion of Noor Inayat Khan' chronicles the complex life of Noor alias Nora alias Madeleine. </b>Trained by Britain as an Allied Special Operations Executive and sent into occupied France, Noor, a Muslim Indian living in Paris, became the first female radio operator during the Second World War. On September 13, 1944, she was shot at a camp in Dachau, Germany, after being captured and severely tortured. <br />
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With a mission to bring quality South Asian themed stories to universal audiences, while offering a talent development platform where theatre professionals work with aspiring amateurs to foster the growth of local performing talents, Enacte Arts presents to you 'SoundWaves: The Passion of Noor Inayat Khan', which is still as socio-politically relevant as it was during Second World War. <b>While depicting courage, resilience and most importantly, love, Noor’s story inspires moral integrity in the face of adversity and large-scale political conflicts.</b><br />
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Written by <b>Joe Martin</b><br />
Directed by <b>Vinita Sud Belani</b><br />
Music composed by <b>Randy Armstrong</b><br />
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The Cal Pakistani Students Association proudly presents <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/1841128739478841/">Jawani Kay Rang</a>--the 12th Annual Urdu Culture Show!<br />
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This is Cal PSA's BIGGEST event of the year. Join us for an evening filled with poetry, energetic dances, live music, a chic fashion show, and much more! Delicious Pakistani cuisine is provided! Check out their <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/1841128739478841/">Facebook event </a> as well.<br />
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Doors open at 6:00 p.m. Seating is first-come-first-serve, so be sure to be on time. We have sold out to an audience of over 500 in the past few years!<br />
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Tickets are $17 prior to the event, and will go up to $20 at 5pm on Friday. Reserve your tickets today before they sell out! You may purchase online at <a href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/psas-12th-annual-urdu-culture-show-tickets-31623787600">TICKETS</a>.<br />
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Event proceeds will go to the Edhi Foundation, and we will also have a donation box at the door. <br />
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Come out and support your friends, family, and community and be ready for a fun night of entertainment and food! It is most definitely going to be a fantastic night so you don't want to miss this!<br />
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This class is geared toward some of the concerns of the LGBTQ community, this 3-Hour class covers street safety & awareness, physical & verbal boundary setting and some basic full-force self-defense tactics proven effective at keeping you safe.<br />
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Location will be provided after RSVPing<br />
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RSVP By following this attached link below:<br />
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* We welcome all who experience life through the lens of queerness in body, spirit, identity - past, present, future, and fluid.http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/sseas.html?event_ID=108225&date=2017-04-09Asamapta (Incomplete), Apr 10http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/sseas.html?event_ID=108021&date=2017-04-10
Join us for a screening of award winning film director, Suman Mukhopadhyay's newest film, Asamapta (Incomplete). <br />
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<b>Film Synopsis</b><br />
Indrajit has come to the mountains to search for his childhood. He is staying in his friend Moloy’s house. Moloy and Tuki married out of love, but they are bitter now. Indrajit witnesses their diurnal quarrels. At this juncture Indrajit meets Mitun, his former love. Once upon a time they were supposed to get married, but Indrajit had backed out in the last minute. Mitun had later married Subrata with that searing pain of rejection in her heart. Mitun and Subrata’s warm conjugal bond is in stark contrast with the volatile married lives of Moloy and Tuki. Caught in between, the cautious and meticulous Indrajit begins to discover a new philosophical outlook towards relationships, marriage, and women. A series of events throws up new challenging questions about life that bring the eternal escape artist Indrajit to strange crossroads and lives begin to change.<br />
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<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uYueWaO4zfU&list=PLyCzL6v1WzLXJMmWFXetqAuICJplf2DnE">FILM TRAILER</a><br />
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Running time: 120 mins<br />
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<b> About the Director</b><br />
Suman was born in Howrah, a suburb of Kolkata, India and started his career as theatre actor and director. He has directed six feature films: Asamapta (2016), Shesher Kobita (2015); Kangal Malsat, (2013); Mahanagar@Kolkata (2009); Chaturanga (2008) and Herbert (2005). Herbert was given the National Award for Best Regional Film. He has participated in various national and international film festivals including Munich Film Festival, San Francisco Film Festival, Seattle Film Festival, Dubai Film Festival etc. He was a delegate to Cannes Film Festival from National Film Development Corporation, India.<br />
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Event made possible with the support of the <a href="http://southasia.berkeley.edu/sarah-kailath-chair-memorial-lecture">Sarah Kailath Chair of India Studies</a><br />
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<a href="http://southasia.berkeley.edu/parking-around-campus">PARKING INFORMATION</a><br />
<i>Please note that parking is not always easily available in Berkeley. Take public transportation if possible or arrive early to secure your spot.</i>http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/sseas.html?event_ID=108021&date=2017-04-10Making Fit, Pricing Air: High-Rises Explode Across Phnom Penh, Apr 11http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/sseas.html?event_ID=105206&date=2017-04-11
Condominium towers have become banal features of Phnom Penh’s built environment at odds with the frenetic pace at which they have exploded across the city over the last decade. The surge of units and the shape of price are also at odds with the housing needs of a city that is small in population; and are instead geared towards foreign buyers seeking to park their money in real estate. This talk examines pent-up expertise across the continent and upward pressures on land prices facilitated by brokers in Phnom Penh that generated the market dynamics leading to the serial rollout of condominium towers. In a city fitfully lurching upward, how does the high-rise, of all things, become a productive medium of construction, subject to serial repetition by developers working to build in an uncharted market?<br />
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Sylvia Nam received her Ph.D. in City & Regional Planning with a designated emphasis in Global Metropolitan Studies from UC Berkeley in 2012. Her undergraduate degree in Comparative Literature is also from UC Berkeley. She was a UC President's Postdoctoral Fellow at UC Riverside from 2012-14, before joining the faculty at UC Irvine.http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/sseas.html?event_ID=105206&date=2017-04-11“Advancing Human Rights in a Rightward World: Challenges for International Institutions and Civil Society”, Apr 11http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/sseas.html?event_ID=106641&date=2017-04-11
“Advancing Human Rights in a Rightward World: Challenges for International Institutions and Civil Society”<br />
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A Talk By: NAVANETHEM PILLAY<br />
United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, 2008-2014 and Judge of the International Criminal Court, 2003-2008<br />
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Opening Remarks: PAUL ALIVISATOS, Vice Chancellor for Research and Samsung Distinguished Professor of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, UC, Berkeley<br />
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Hosted by: Political Conflict, Gender and People's Rights Project, Center for Race and Gender, University of California, Berkeley<br />
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Tuesday, April 11, 2017, 5:00pm to 7:00pm<br />
Goldberg Room, Boalt Hall, Berkeley School of Law<br />
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· Introductions by Professor Angana Chatterji, Visiting Research Anthropologist and Co-chair, Project on Political Conflict, Gender and People's Rights, Center for Race and Gender, UC, Berkeley<br />
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· Moderated by Professor Laurel Fletcher, Clinical Professor of Law & Director of the International Human Rights Law Clinic, School of Law, UC, Berkeley<br />
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This Talk is Free and Open to the Public<br />
Location is wheelchair accessible<br />
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Co-sponsors: <br />
· University of California, Berkeley:<br />
o Department Gender and Women’s Studies, University of California, Berkeley<br />
o Human Rights Center, University of California, Berkeley School of Law<br />
o Institute for South Asia Studies, University of California, Berkeley<br />
o International and Area Studies, University of California, Berkeley<br />
o International Human Rights Law Clinic, University of California, Berkeley School of Law<br />
o Miller Institute For Global Challenges and the Law, University Of California, Berkeley School Of Law<br />
o Townsend Center and Center for Race and Gender Working Group on Muslim Identities and Cultures, University of California, Berkeley<br />
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· Columbia:<br />
o Institute for the Study of Human Rights, Columbia University<br />
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· Stanford:<br />
o WSD HANDA Center for Human Rights and International Justice, Stanford Universityhttp://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/sseas.html?event_ID=106641&date=2017-04-11People Made These Things: Connecting with the Makers of Our World, thru Dec 17http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/sseas.html?event_ID=107483&date=2017-04-12
Why do we sometimes know a lot about who made things, and why do we sometimes not? Why does it sometimes matter to us, and why might it sometimes not? These are the questions that will be raised in the exhibit that will inaugurate the Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology’s renovated Kroeber Hall Gallery. The Museum will display objects from the collection that urge visitors to think critically about how perceptions of makers have varied in different times and distant places. Objects such as ancient Peruvian jars, Tibetan Buddhist paintings, and Wedgwood china tell diverse stories of makers whose identities are obscure; a Yoruba divining tray, Karuk Indian baskets, and colorful Guatemalan textiles embody rich personal accounts of craftsmanship. Visitors are invited to reflect on the makers of their lives and share their stories. The exhibit will incorporate objects contributed by community members that illustrate the theme's relevance to everyday life. The newly redesigned space, replete with warm woods and comfortable seating areas, creates a pleasing environment for audiences of all kinds.<br />
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The exhibit will open April 3. All visitors will receive free admission from April 3 to April 9.http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/sseas.html?event_ID=107483&date=2017-04-12ERG Colloquium: Giorgos Kallis, Apr 12http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/sseas.html?event_ID=106702&date=2017-04-12
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Fredrik Logevall is the Laurence D. Belfer Professor of International Affairs at Harvard University, where he holds joint appointments in the Kennedy School of Government and the Department of History. He is the author or editor of nine books, most recently Embers of War: The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America’s Vietnam (Random House, 2012), which won the Pulitzer Prize for History and the Francis Parkman Prize, as well as the American Library in Paris Book Award and the Arthur Ross Book Award from the Council on Foreign Relations. His other recent works include America’s Cold War: The Politics of Insecurity (with Campbell Craig; Belknap/Harvard, 2009), and the college-level textbook A People and A Nation: A History of the United States (with Mary Beth Norton et al; 10th ed., Cengage, 2014). Logevall’s essays and reviews have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, Politico, Daily Beast, and Foreign Affairs, among other publications. A native of Stockholm, Sweden, he is a past president of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations, and is also a member of the Council of Foreign Relations and the Society of American Historians. He is currently writing a biography of President John F. Kennedy.http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/sseas.html?event_ID=106046&date=2017-04-12The Namesake | New Directions in Indian Cinema, Apr 12http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/sseas.html?event_ID=107999&date=2017-04-12
ISAS is proud to announce the 5th Sarah Kailath Memorial Lecture - a lecture series on the theme of Women and Leadership. <br />
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Our fifth Sarah Kailath Memorial lecture will be delivered by acclaimed film director Mira Nair.<br />
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Preceding Mira Nair's lecture on Sunday, May 7, we will be screening the following selected films from her vast collection: <br />
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<b>Admission with Cal ID only. RSVP information below.</b><br />
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<b>Wed, April 12 @ 5 pm in 10 Stephens Hall</b>: <br />
<a href="http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/csas.html?event_ID=107999"><b>The Namesake | New Directions in Indian Cinema</b></a> <br />
<i>The Namesake is a 2006 Indian-American drama film which was released in the United States on 9 March 2007, following screenings at film festivals in Toronto and New York City. The Namesake depicts the struggles of Ashoke and Ashima Ganguli (Irrfan Khan and Tabu), first-generation immigrants from the East Indian state of West Bengal to the United States, and their American-born children Gogol (Kal Penn) and Sonia (Sahira Nair).</i><br />
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<b>RSVP for this film <a href="http://bit.ly/NamesakeISAS">HERE</a></b><br />
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Other Mira Nair-related events below:<br />
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FILM SCREENING | Wed, April 5 @ 5:30 pm in 10 Stephens Hall: <br />
<a href="http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/csas.html?event_ID=107998&date=2017-04-05&filter=Target/Open%20To%20Audiences&filtersel="><b>The Reluctant Fundamentalist | New Directions in Indian Cinema</b></a> <br />
<i>The Reluctant Fundamentalist is a 2012 political thriller drama film based on the 2007 novel, The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid, directed by Mira Nair, starring Riz Ahmed and Kate Hudson in lead.</i><br />
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FILM SCREENING | Wed, April 19 @ 5 pm in 10 Stephens Hall: <br />
<a href="http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/csas.html?event_ID=108000&date=2017-04-19&filter=Target/Open%20To%20Audiences&filtersel="><b>Mississippi Masala | New Directions in Indian Cinema</b></a> <br />
<i>Mississippi Masala a 1991 romantic drama film directed by Mira Nair, based upon a screenplay by Sooni Taraporevala, starring Denzel Washington, Sarita Choudhury, and Roshan Seth.</i><br />
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FILM SCREENING | Wed, April 26 @ 5 pm in 10 Stephens Hall: <br />
<a href="http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/csas.html?event_ID=108001&date=2017-04-26&filter=Target/Open%20To%20Audiences&filtersel="><b>Queen of Katwe | New Directions in Indian Cinema</b></a> <br />
<i>Queen of Katwe (2016) is the colorful true story of a young girl selling corn on the streets of rural Uganda whose world rapidly changes when she is introduced to the game of chess.</i><br />
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FILM SCREENING | Wed, May 3 @ 5 pm in 10 Stephens Hall: <br />
<a href="http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/csas.html?event_ID=108002"><b>Monsoon Wedding | New Directions in Indian Cinema</b></a> <br />
<i>Monsoon Wedding is a 2001 film that explores the bonds that unite families in touching, dramatic, and comedic ways.</i><br />
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LECTURE | Sunday, May 7 @ 3 pm in Chevron Auditorium, International House: <br />
<a href="http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/csas.html?event_ID=107834&date=2017-05-07&filter=Target/Open%20To%20Audiences&filtersel="><b>The 5th Sarah Kailath Memorial Lecture by Mira Nair</b></a><br />
<i>This lecture series has been established in memory of Sarah Kailath (February 5 1941 - October 15, 2008), a long-time supporter of ISAS’s mission and activities and in whose name the center holds an endowed chair titled the "Sarah Kailath Chair in India Studies."</i><br />
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PLAY | Friday, May 5 to June 25 at the Berkeley Rep: <br />
<a href="https://www.berkeleyrep.org/season/1617/10662.asp#tabbed-nav=info"><b>Monsoon Wedding: The Musical</b></a><br />
<i>Award-winning film director Mira Nair brings her exuberant and sumptuous Monsoon Wedding to Berkeley Rep’s stage in this highly anticipated world premiere musical.</i><br />
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Event made possible with the support of the <a href="http://southasia.berkeley.edu/sarah-kailath-chair-memorial-lecture/">Sarah Kailath Chair of India Studies</a><br />
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<i>Please note that parking is not always easily available in Berkeley. Take public transportation if possible or arrive early to secure your spot.</i>http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/sseas.html?event_ID=107999&date=2017-04-12Roots of the Mongolian State: Genghis Khan's Survival and Pragmatism as Related in the Secret History of the Mongols, Apr 13http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/sseas.html?event_ID=108564&date=2017-04-13
The year 1206 marked the beginning of the first Mongol State. Its genesis was overseen and led by Genghis Khan, whose conquests remain a formidable historical series of events. The Secret History narrates his biography as a tale of surviving repeated life threats and overcoming major enemies. From this history, I have extracted an existential framework to explain how he survived in a dangerous natural, social and political environment. The rise of this State compressed what probably occurred in most other historical States, and I will summarize my Anthrocentric Security Theory as general explanation of this phenomenon, drawing on Western philosophy, especially philosophical anthropology. The framework consists of four levels of Being - state of nature, life-community, State, and civil society. Each level has enabled humans to devise several Security Action Platforms from which are launched particular security actions, culminating in the State. Successful in three stages, but not in creating a civil society, the Mongol State assimilated and absorbed the strengths of natural men and life-communities, enabling the expansion into Eurasian empire under his sons and grandsons. Mongolian democracy today is engaged in completing a sovereign civil society inhibited by China and the Soviet Union in past centuries.http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/sseas.html?event_ID=108564&date=2017-04-13Sacred Singing, Apr 13http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/sseas.html?event_ID=106038&date=2017-04-13
The Subir and Malini Chowdhury Center for Bangladesh Studies at UC Berkeley proudly present an evening with Parvathy Baul, Baul folk singer, musician and storyteller from Bengal. <br />
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<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parvathy_Baul<br />
"><b>Parvathy Baul</b></a> is a master performer, practitioner, and teacher of the Baul tradition from Bengal, India. She has performed at prestigious concert halls and music festivals in over a dozen countries. Her mastery of vocal pitch and tone while playing multiple instruments and dancing has been lauded by music experts, while the overall impact of her performance has been described by critics as “riveting” and “spellbinding.”<br />
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Parvathy’s work emerges from a long lineage of master Baul singers, dancers, and spiritual teachers. She studied closely with two of the most respected Baul singer-gurus of the previous generation, Sri Sanatan Das Thakur Baul and Sri Shoshanko Goshai. She was recognized by Sanatan Das Baul as both a musical and spiritual teacher in the Baul tradition, carrying forward his spiritual legacy.<br />
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In India, Bauls are known not only for their exquisite songs but for their fierce opposition to the caste system and reverence for the feminine. While fully embodying traditional Baul music and practice, Parvathy is also renowned for her efforts in renewing this ancient heritage. As the most recognized woman Baul performer in the world, Parvathy is making systematic training in Baul arts available to women in India on a scale that has never occurred previously and frequently uses her international reputation to highlight lesser- known master performers. She is the founder of Tantidhatri, an international women’s performance festival, and co-founder of the Ekathara Kalari school in Kerala, India for training in both song and traditional spiritual practice. In 2017 she will be touring in the U.S. for the first time.<br />
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Event moderated by <a href="http://www.seek-anya.com/chakra/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=2&Itemid=57">Dr. Sukanya Chakrabarti</a>. Sukanya Chakrabarti received her doctoral degree in Theater and Performance Studies at Stanford University in June 2016. Dr. Chakrabarti has been involved in various performances in the Bay area and around the world - she performed in <i>Democratically Speaking</i> (2016); acted in Seneca’s <i>Oedipus</i>, and directed Sam Shepard’s <i>Killer’s Head</i>, both staged as a part of Stanford Summer Theater Festival 2011; performed in several productions by Enacte Arts (<i>The Conference of the Birds</i>, 2016; <i>Merchant on Venice</i>, 2014; <i>Noor: The Empress of the Mughals</i>, 2013); and participated in Eugenio Barba’s workshop at the Odin Week Festival in Holstebro, Denmark (2014). Her directorial and devised projects include <i>A Bare Stage</i> (2015); <i>almost…home…</i> (2014) and <i>Divided Together</i> (2012), all produced in Stanford University. She has been trained in Indian Classical music and dance since her childhood, and takes special interest in Rabindranath Tagore’s songs, literary works and philosophies. Her training and specialization are in the area of oral history; postcolonial and ethnic studies (with a focus on South Asian performance studies); ethnomusicology; dramatic literature; transcultural theater and performance; experimental devised performances; and community-based performance-making.<br />
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Event made possible with the support of the <a href="http://southasia.berkeley.edu/sarah-kailath-chair-memorial-lecture">Sarah Kailath Chair of India Studies</a><br />
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Event is <b>FREE</b> and open to the public.<br />
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<i>Please note that parking is not always easily available in Berkeley. Take public transportation if possible or arrive early to secure your spot.</i>http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/sseas.html?event_ID=106038&date=2017-04-13Offense! The Public Life of Injury in South Asia, Apr 14-15http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/sseas.html?event_ID=105273&date=2017-04-14
Giving and taking offense has for long been a central element in public cultures across South Asia. In the 19th and 20th centuries, communities emerged around affective attachments to religious symbols, distinct histories and social practices, and calls to defend themselves against insults and attacks. The Indian Penal Code of 1860 carried two sections (153 and 295) that explicitly forbade “vilification” of groups, and the “insult of the religion of a class of people”. Both these sections are retained ad verbatim in the penal codes of Pakistan, India and Bangladesh.<br />
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While the colonial state saw ‘insults’ and ‘vilifications’ as a threat to public order, the charge of causing offense to religious, cultural or national sentiments has today become one of the powerful ways to assert social and religious dominance across South Asia. The claim of moral injury are at the heart of most major controversies: the campaign to ‘liberate ‘ the birth place of Lord Ram in the 1990s; Pakistan’s infamous blasphemy laws; the backlash toward the decriminalization of homosexuality in India; censorship of books, films, and dissenting voices across South Asia; banning of beef in India; vigilantes defending public morality, and much more. At the same time, minority communities and marginal and dissenting groups are also deploying narratives of injury and offense in their claims for recognition and inclusion.<br />
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The South Asia by the Bay Graduate Conference 2017 invites papers that probe the theme of offense, public morality, notions of collective injury, historical injustice and outrage in South Asia. The conference is the sixth in the series and emerges from the collaboration between Stanford, UC Santa Cruz, UC Berkeley and UC Davis. This year it is hosted by the Center for South Asia at Stanford University.<br />
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Although the conference is open to the public, our aim is to provide a focused platform where about 20-25 graduate students working on South Asia can meet with each other and faculty from all the organizing institutions to discuss their work.<br />
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Keynote speakers:<br />
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William Mazzarella, Professor of Anthropology, University of Chicago<br />
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Jisha Menon, Associate Professor of Theatre and Performance Studies, Stanford University.<br />
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Please check back for updates on agenda and speaker list. <br />
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<i>South Asia by the Bay inaugurates an unprecedented collaboration among several universities within California: Stanford University, University of California, Berkeley, University of California, Davis, and University of California, Santa Cruz.We aim to establish an annual forum where graduate students from across disciplines and institutions in North America, who work on South Asia, can meet to discuss their work with each other, and with South Asia affiliated faculty from the organizing institutions and beyond. Besides keynotes by important scholars in the field, we will hold interactive sessions with faculty on the international job market in South Asian studies, film screenings, and social events.</i><br />
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Follow us on <a href="https://twitter.com/CSASatBerkeley"><b>TWITTER</b></a>http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/sseas.html?event_ID=105273&date=2017-04-14Saving Mes Aynak: A Film by Brent E. Huffman, Apr 14http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/sseas.html?event_ID=108280&date=2017-04-14
The 2015 documentary Saving Mes Aynak follows Afghan archaeologist Qadir Temori as he tries to save a 5,000-yearold site in Afghanistan from imminent demolition by a Chinese state-owned mining company that is eager to harvest $100 billion worth of copper buried directly beneath the archaeological ruins. The Chinese project directly threatens future discoveries that, according to some, could help redefine not only the history of Afghanistan but even the history of Buddhism itself. The documentary highlights Qadir Temori and his fellow Afghan archaeologists’ overwhelmingly difficult battle against the Chinese company, the Taliban, and local political groups to save this cultural heritage from likely erasure.<br />
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Following the screening, there will be a conversation with Brent E. Huffman to discuss the aftermath of the documentary and the current state of the site. <br />
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Brent E. Huffman is an award-winning director, producer and cinematographer of documentaries and television programs. His work ranges from documentaries aired on The Discovery Channel, The National Geographic Channel, NBC, CNN, PBS and Al Jazeera, to Sundance Film Festival premieres, to ethnographic films made for the China Exploration and Research Society. He has also directed, produced, shot, and edited short documentaries for online outlets like The New York Times, TIME, Salon, Huffington Post and PBS Arts.<br />
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Huffman has been making social issue documentaries and environmental films for more than a decade in Asia, Africa, and the Middle East. These films have gone on to win numerous awards including a Primetime Emmy, Best Conservation Film-Jackson Hole, Best Documentary-Fresno, three Cine Golden Eagle Awards, a College Emmy, a Student Academy Award, and a Grand Jury Award at AFI’s SILVERDOCS.<br />
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Brent Huffman is also an associate professor at the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University where he teaches documentary production and theory.http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/sseas.html?event_ID=108280&date=2017-04-14Panel discussion - A Tomb for Khun Srun, Apr 17http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/sseas.html?event_ID=107753&date=2017-04-17
A panel discussion will be held prior to the screening of the documentary film 'A Tomb for Khun Srun' (2015), chaired by Prof. Penny Edwards, Associate Professor of South & Southeast Asian Studies.<br />
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The film looks at the life of Khun Srun, a brilliant Cambodian writer who joined the Khmer Rouge in 1973 only to be executed by the regime in December 1978. The film aims to bring attention to his literary voice, combined with a present-day focus on his daughter, Khun Khem, as she looks into her father's history. The only surviving member of this family, she lives in a precarious state in Pailin, a former Khmer Rouge stronghold. <br />
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Eric Galmard is on the faculty of the University of Strasbourg where he teaches documentary and Asian cinema in the Faculty of Arts. He recently contributed a chapter on Amir Muhammad’s film "The Last Communist" to the edited volume <i>Les Cinemas d’Asie </i> (2016)http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/sseas.html?event_ID=107753&date=2017-04-17A Tomb for Khun Srun (2015, 63 mins.), Apr 17http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/sseas.html?event_ID=107752&date=2017-04-17
This documentary film, directed by Eric Galmard (who will be in attendance at the screening), looks at the life of Khun Srun, a brilliant Cambodian writer who joined the Khmer Rouge in 1973 only to be executed by the regime in December 1978. The film aims to bring attention to his literary voice, combined with a present-day focus on his daughter, Khun Khem, as she looks into her father's history. The only surviving member of this family, she lives in a precarious state in Pailin, a former Khmer Rouge stronghold. <br />
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Eric Galmard is on the faculty of the University of Strasbourg where he teaches documentary and Asian cinema in the Faculty of Arts. He recently contributed a chapter on Amir Muhammad’s film "The Last Communist" to the edited volume <i>Les Cinemas d’Asie </i> (2016)http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/sseas.html?event_ID=107752&date=2017-04-17Teaching and Research Resource Fair, Apr 18http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/sseas.html?event_ID=108025&date=2017-04-18
Looking for ideas on how to improve or refresh your teaching or research? Wondering what campus resources are available to faculty and how to connect to them? <br />
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Come to the first-ever AIS Teaching and Research Resource Fair (aka AIS-palooza) to get inspired, learn new things, and get your questions answered.<br />
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Check out a few mini-sessions or stay for the whole event! <br />
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Participating organizations include:<br />
American Cultures Center, bConnected, Berkeley Institute for Data Science, Berkeley Video, Cal Performances, Campus Shared Services-IT, Center for Teaching and Learning, D-Lab, Data Science Education Program, Digital Humanities, Disabled Students Program, Division of Equity & Inclusion, Educational Technology Services, Information Services Technology, Jacobs Institute for Design Innovation, Library, Media Relations, Media Resources Center, Public Affairs, Office of Ethics, Office of Undergraduate Research and Scholarships, Research IT, Undergraduate and Interdisciplinary Studieshttp://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/sseas.html?event_ID=108025&date=2017-04-18Prahlad Singh Tipaniya | Kahat Kabira, Apr 18http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/sseas.html?event_ID=108763&date=2017-04-18
Join us for an uplifting performance of Kabir <i>bhajans</i> by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prahlad_Tipanya">Padmashri Prahlad Singh Tipanya</a>, one of the most compelling folk voices of Kabir in India today, and his associates. <br />
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<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prahlad_Tipanya">Prahlad Singh Tipanya</a> is a locally, nationally, and internationally acclaimed folk singer from Lunyakhedi, a small village in Ujjain District, Madhya Pradesh, India. He is renowned for his singing and interpretation of Kabir, the great fifteenth-century Hindi poet, along with other Hindi poets associated with nirgun devotion. Nirgun refers to a God or ultimate reality beyond word and form. Kabir is famous for both his profound mystical insight and his sharp social commentary. His voice is often invoked as inspiring communal harmony and social equality.<br />
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In 1997, Tipaniya started <i>Kabir Smarak Seva Shodh Sansthan</i> in his home in the village of Luniyakhedi. This registered trust organizes an annual event, where thousands come to listen to Kabir’s words through bhajans. This organization also runs a primary school and further plans to include a library of Kabir-related writings and a meditation hall.<br />
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More information on Prahlad Tipaniya and other artists who sing Kabir’s poetry can also be found at the <a href="http://www.kabirproject.org/">Kabir Project</a>.<br />
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In his current tour of USA he is accompanied by Ashok Tipaniya, Devnarayan Saroliya, Ajay Tipaniya, Vijay Tipaniya, and Dharmendra Tipaniya.<br />
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Event made possible with the support of the <a href="http://southasia.berkeley.edu/sarah-kailath-chair-memorial-lecture">Sarah Kailath Chair of India Studies</a><br />
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China's "One Belt, One Road" is one of the most ambitious infrastructure plans of the past century. PRC Deputy Consul General Ren Faqiang will introduce China's Belt and Road Initiatives, followed by a panel of political science and economics specialists engaged to discuss the plan, its goals, and its potential effects with delegates from the Consulate General of the PRC-SF.<br />
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Agenda:<br />
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Welcome Remarks<br />
Kevin O’Brien (Moderator)<br />
Deputy Consul General Ren Faqiang, Consulate General of the PRC- SF<br />
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Presentations:<br />
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The “One Belt, One Road Project”: An Introduction<br />
Deputy Consul General Ren Faqiang, Consulate General of the PRC- SF<br />
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The Impact of China’s Belt and Road Initiative on Asian Regional Integration and Global Governance<br />
Yves Tiberghien, University of British Columbia<br />
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"One Belt One Road" and Trump's Asia Policy<br />
Lowell Dittmer, Political Science, UC Berkeley<br />
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Liberal Trading Under Assault<br />
Vinod Aggarwal, Political Science, UC <br />
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“One Belt, One Road”: Opportunities and Challenges<br />
David Roland-Holst, Agriculture and Resource Economics, UC Berkeley<br />
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Roundtable Discussion:<br />
Consul Wang Dong, Consulate General of the PRC- SF<br />
Peter Lorentzen, Political Science, UC Berleley<br />
Consul Sun Jia, Consulate General of the PRC- SF<br />
Li Yi, Consulate General of the PRC- SF<br />
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Participant Bios:<br />
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Vinod AGGARWAL, Political Science, UC Berkeley<br />
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Vinod (Vinnie) Aggarwal is Travers Family Senior Faculty Fellow and Professor in the Department of Political Science, Affiliated Professor in the Business and Public Policy group in the Haas School of Business, and Director of the Berkeley Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation Study Center (BASC) at the University of California at Berkeley. He also serves as Editor-in-Chief of the journal Business and Politics, and Co-Chair of the U.S. Consortium of APEC Study Centers. From 1991-1994, he chaired the Political Economy of Industrial Societies Program at UC Berkeley.<br />
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He has held fellowships from the Brookings Institution, Rockefeller Foundation, Council on Foreign Relations, East-West Center, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, and was a Japan Foundation Abe Fellow. He has also been a Visiting Professor at the Graduate Institute of International Studies in Geneva, the University of Geneva’s IOMBA program, INSEAD, Yonsei University, NTU Singapore, and Bocconi University. He is also an elected lifetime member of the Council on Foreign Relations and founding member of the U.S. Asia Pacific Council. <br />
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Dr. Aggarwal consults regularly with multinational corporations on strategy, trade policy, and international negotiations, including Sutherland Global Services, Merck, Russell Investments, the Investment Management Consultants Association, Cisco, Statoil, ING Clarion, Genentech, Hewlett Packard, Qualcomm, Herman Miller, Italcementi, ARCO, and Nestle. He has been a consultant to the Mexican Government, the U.S. Department of Commerce, U.S. Defense Department, U.S. State Department, World Trade Organization, OECD, the Group of Thirty, FAO, IFAD, the International Labor Organization, ASEAN, and the World Bank. In 1990, he was Special Adviser on Trade Negotiations to the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) and has worked with the APEC Eminent Persons Group. In 1997, he won the Cheit Outstanding Teaching Award at the Haas School of Business for PhD teaching; in 2003 he was first runner up for the Cheit Award for MBA teaching and won first place for the MBA program in 2005.<br />
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Lowell DITTMER, Political Science, UC Berkeley<br />
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Professor Dittmer received his Ph.D. from The University of Chicago in 1971. His scholarly expertise is the study of contemporary China. He teaches courses on contemporary China, Northeast Asia, and the Pacific Rim. His current research interests include a study of the impact of reform on Chinese Communist authority, a survey of patterns of informal politics in East Asia, and a project on the China-Taiwan-US triangle in the context of East Asian regional politics. Professor Dittmer's recently published books and monographs include Sino-Soviet Normalization and Its International Implications (University of Washington Press, 1992), China's Quest for National Identity (with Samuel Kim, Cornell University Press, 1993), China Under Modernization (Westview Press, 1994), and South Asia's Nuclear Crisis (M. E. Sharpe, 2005).<br />
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Consul LI Yi, Consulate General of the PRC-SF<br />
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Consul Li Yi has worked in the Chinese Consulate General in San Francisco since December 2014. He acts as Head of the Press and Public Diplomacy section. Previously, he worked in the Department of North American and Oceanian Affairs of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of China from October 2009 to December 2014. From March 2008 to September 2009, Consul Yi worked in the Chinese Embassy in Greece, and prior to that, from August 2005 to March 2008, he worked in the Chinese Embassy in the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan. He holds a Masters degree of International Relations from Beijing University. <br />
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Peter LORENTZEN, Political Science, UC Berkeley<br />
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Peter Lorentzen studies the political economy of development and authoritarian governance, with a focus on China. He has written on authoritarian media control strategies, the role of entrenched economic interests in blocking environmental governance reforms, the management of popular protest, and the rise of rights consciousness in China, among other topics.<br />
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He is currently completing a book on how the Chinese Communist Party manages political participation in order to gather crucial information that improves its capacity for effective governance and social control, while also taking steps to mitigate the spread of that same information from citizen to citizen that could undermine its rule.<br />
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His research has been published in the American Journal of Political Science, the China Quarterly, Genetics in Medicine, the Journal of Economic Growth, the Journal of Politics, the Journal of Theoretical Politics, Modern China, and the Quarterly Journal of Political Science, and new research is forthcoming in World Development. His research has also attracted attention from mass media outlets including the Boston Review, California Magazine, The Diplomat, the New Yorker, the New York Review of Books blog, and Slate.<br />
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He earned his PhD in Economic Analysis and Policy from Stanford University Graduate School of Business and his BA in Asian Studies from Dartmouth College. He has also studied at the London School of Economics, Beijing Normal University, National Taiwan University, and on a Fulbright Scholarship at Chinese University of Hong Kong.<br />
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Kevin O’BRIEN, Political Science, UC Berkeley<br />
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Kevin O’Brien is the Alann P. Bedford Professor of Asian Studies and Professor of Political Science. He is also the Director of Berkeley's Institute of East Asian Studies and the Walter and Elise Haas Professor of Asian Studies. A student of Chinese politics in the reform era, he has published nearly 50 articles on topics such as legislative politics, local elections, fieldwork strategies, popular protest, policy implementation, protest policing, and village-level political reform. He is the author of Reform Without Liberalization: China's National People's Congress and the Politics of Institutional Change (Cambridge, 1990) and the co-author of Rightful Resistance in Rural China (Cambridge, 2006). He is the co-editor of Engaging the Law in China: State, Society and Possibilities for Justice (Stanford, 2005), Rural Politics in Contemporary China (Routledge, 2014), and Grassroots Elections in China(Routledge, 2011), and the editor of Popular Protest in China (Harvard, 2008). His most recent work centers on the Chinese state and theories of popular contention, particularly as concerns the policing of protest and types of repression that are neither "soft" nor "hard." He has won various grants and awards and serves on the editorial or advisory board of ten journals.<br />
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Deputy Consul General REN Faqiang, Deputy Consul General of the Consulate General of the PRC-SF<br />
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Deputy Consul General Ren Faqiang was born in 1971 in Shandong province. He has worked at the Chinese Consulate General in San Francisco as Deputy Consul General since August 2015. From 2011 to 2015, he worked at the Chinese Embassy in Sri Lanka as Deputy Chief of the Mission and Political Counselor. Previously, from 2003 to 2011, he worked as Deputy Director and Director at the Department of North American and Oceanian Affairs of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of China. Prior, he served as Vice Consul at the Chinese Consulate General in Chicago from 1999 to 2003. From 1996 to 1999, Deputy Consul General Faqiang served as a US Affairs desk officer at the Department of North American and Oceanian Affairs of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of China. He is currently married with a daughter. Deputy Consul General Faqiang graduated from Shandong Teachers’ University and Foreign Affairs College in Beijing. <br />
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David ROLAND-HOLST, Agriculture and Resource Economics, UC Berkeley<br />
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David Roland-Holst is adjunct professor of agricultural and resource economics in the College of Natural Resources at UC Berkeley. He is an expert on the Chinese economy, international development, and environmental economics. Roland-Holst has authored six books and more than 100 professional journal articles and book chapters. He has also served in academic posts in the United States, Europe, and Asia, and conducted research in more than 40 countries, working with such institutions as the Asian Development Bank, Inter-American Development Bank, Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), World Bank, and several United Nations agencies, as well as governments in Asia, Latin America, Europe, Africa, and the United States. He holds a Ph.D. in economics from UC Berkeley.<br />
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Consul SUN Jia, Consulate General of the PRC-SF<br />
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Mr. Sun Jia, born in Beijing 1983, is a Consul of Press and Public Diplomacy office of Chinese Consulate General in San Francisco from July 2015. He received education in Singapore Nanyang Technological University and China Foreign Affairs University. Sun joined the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of China in 2005. He served in Chinese Embassy in Qatar from 2005 to 2010. During 2010-2015, Sun served in the Information Department of Chinese Foreign Ministry. <br />
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Yves TIBERGHIEN, Institute of Asian Research at the University of British Columbia (UBC), Canada<br />
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Yves Tiberghien (Ph.D. Stanford University, 2002) is the Director of the Institute of Asian Research at the University of British Columbia (UBC), Executive Director of the UBC China Council, and Associate Professor of Political Science. In 2014-2016, Dr. Tiberghien also served as Co-Director of the Master of Public Policy and Global Affairs (MPPGA), which he founded as Chair of the UBC Public Policy Curriculum Committee in 2014. In 2014-2015 he chaired the President’s ‘Ad-Hoc Committee on International Strategy.’ <br />
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He specializes in East Asian comparative political economy, international political economy, and global economic and environmental governance, with an empirical focus on China, Japan, Korea, and Southeast Asia. In 2007, he published Entrepreneurial States: Reforming Corporate Governance in France, Japan, and Korea (Cornell University Press in the Political Economy Series directed by Peter Katzenstein). His most recent publications include three books (亚洲与世界未来 (Asia and the Future of the World). Beijing: 社会科学文献出版社 (Social Sciences Academic Press, China) ; L’Asie et le futur du monde, Paris: Science Po Press, 2012; and Leadership in Global Institution-Building: Minerva’s Rule, edited volume, Palgrave McMillan, 2013). <br />
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Dr. Tiberghien focuses on the ongoing transition in the global economic and environmental order, in the face of new systemic risks, a changing balance of power, and the rise of populist political forces. He is also currently working on articles and a book on China’s role in global governance (including G20, AIIB, climate change, Belt and Road Initiative). For a more expensive bio statement, see listing for his talk April 18 at 12:30.<br />
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Consul WANG Dong, Consulate General of the PRC-SF<br />
Consul Wang Dong has worked in the Chinese Consulate General in San Francisco since July 2014 as Consul for Press and Public Diplomacy. Prior, he worked in the Chinese Consulate General in Houston, from August 2006 to October 2013, as Consul for Cultural and Press Affairs. Consul Dong also previously worked as Consul for Cultural and Press Affairs in the Chinese Consulate General in San Francisco from October 2000 to January 2004. He graduated from Renmin University, Beijing, in March 1995, with a Masters degree in International Politics.http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/sseas.html?event_ID=107898&date=2017-04-18Mississippi Masala | New Directions in Indian Cinema, Apr 19http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/sseas.html?event_ID=108000&date=2017-04-19
ISAS is proud to announce the 5th Sarah Kailath Memorial Lecture - a lecture series on the theme of Women and Leadership. <br />
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Our fifth Sarah Kailath Memorial lecture will be delivered by acclaimed film director Mira Nair.<br />
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Preceding Mira Nair's lecture on Sunday, May 7, we will be screening the following selected films from her vast collection: <br />
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<b>Admission with Cal ID only. RSVP Information below</b><br />
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<b>Wed, April 19 @ 5 pm in 10 Stephens Hall</b>: <br />
<a href="http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/csas.html?event_ID=108000&date=2017-04-19&filter=Target/Open%20To%20Audiences&filtersel="><b>Mississippi Masala | New Directions in Indian Cinema</b></a> <br />
<i>Mississippi Masala is a 1991 romantic drama film directed by Mira Nair, based upon a screenplay by Sooni Taraporevala, starring Denzel Washington, Sarita Choudhury, and Roshan Seth. Set primarily in rural Mississippi, the film explores interracial romance between African Americans and Indian Americans in the United States.</i><br />
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<b>RSVP for this film <a href="http://bit.ly/MMISAS">HERE</a></b><br />
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Other Mira Nair-related events below:<br />
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FILM SCREENING | Wed, April 5 @ 5:30 pm in 10 Stephens Hall: <br />
<a href="http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/csas.html?event_ID=107998"><b>The Reluctant Fundamentalist | New Directions in Indian Cinema</b></a> <br />
<i>The Reluctant Fundamentalist is a 2012 political thriller drama film based on the 2007 novel, The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid, directed by Mira Nair, starring Riz Ahmed and Kate Hudson in lead.</i><br />
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FILM SCREENING | Wed, April 12 @ 5 pm in 10 Stephens Hall: <br />
<a href="http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/csas.html?event_ID=107999"><b>The Namesake | New Directions in Indian Cinema</b></a> <br />
<i>The Namesake is a 2006 Indian-American drama film which was released in the United States on 9 March 2007, following screenings at film festivals in Toronto and New York City.</i><br />
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FILM SCREENING | Wed, April 26 @ 5 pm in 10 Stephens Hall: <br />
<a href="http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/csas.html?event_ID=108001&date=2017-04-26&filter=Target/Open%20To%20Audiences&filtersel="><b>Queen of Katwe | New Directions in Indian Cinema</b></a> <br />
<i>Queen of Katwe (2016) is the colorful true story of a young girl selling corn on the streets of rural Uganda whose world rapidly changes when she is introduced to the game of chess.</i><br />
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FILM SCREENING | Wed, May 3 @ 5 pm in 10 Stephens Hall: <br />
<a href="http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/csas.html?event_ID=108002&date=2017-05-03&filter=Target/Open%20To%20Audiences&filtersel="><b>Monsoon Wedding | New Directions in Indian Cinema</b></a> <br />
<i>Monsoon Wedding is a 2001 film that explores the bonds that unite families in touching, dramatic, and comedic ways.</i><br />
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LECTURE | Sunday, May 7 @ 3 pm in Chevron Auditorium, International House: <br />
<a href="http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/csas.html?event_ID=107834&date=2017-05-07&filter=Target/Open%20To%20Audiences&filtersel="><b>The 5th Sarah Kailath Memorial Lecture by Mira Nair</b></a><br />
<i>This lecture series has been established in memory of Sarah Kailath (February 5 1941 - October 15, 2008), a long-time supporter of ISAS’s mission and activities and in whose name the center holds an endowed chair titled the "Sarah Kailath Chair in India Studies."</i>.<br />
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PLAY | Friday, May 5 to June 25 at the Berkeley Rep: <br />
<a href="https://www.berkeleyrep.org/season/1617/10662.asp#tabbed-nav=info"><b>Monsoon Wedding: The Musical</b></a><br />
<i>Award-winning film director Mira Nair brings her exuberant and sumptuous Monsoon Wedding to Berkeley Rep’s stage in this highly anticipated world premiere musical.</i><br />
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Event made possible with the support of the <a href="http://southasia.berkeley.edu/sarah-kailath-chair-memorial-lecture/">Sarah Kailath Chair of India Studies</a><br />
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Join us as Prof. Kirti Jain, eminent theatre historian and prominent stage play director from India as she discusses one of her most lauded productions, <i>Aur Kitne Tukde</i> (How Many Fragments?), a play about gendered violence during Partition that was inspired by Urvashi Butalia's collection of oral histories in the book <i>The Other Side of Silence</i>. . <i>Aur Kitne Tukde</i> unsettles the master narrative of ‘honour’, ‘martyrdom’, ‘choice’ and women's ‘agency’ on Partition and dramatizes hard hitting stories that narrate the ways in which it radically altered the lives of numerous women through acts of rape, abduction, forcible conversion and martyrdom.<br />
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The scale of the tragedy of partition was such that for her and her actors to find a language to articulate the same became a gargantuan task. Prof. Jain will speak about the processes that she employed during the rehearsals for this play and will share some very moving anecdotes vis-à-vis the challenges she faced as its director in devising methods to capture the silence around this huge tragedy as well as in creating a distance between the very personal and emotional selves of the performers and the stories that they were enacting. <br />
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The play won tremendous appreciation and was invited for several National Festivals in different parts of the country, including the Sangeet Natak Akademi's Golden Jubilee Festival as well as internationally for the International Theatre Festival in Lahore, Pakistan.<br />
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Click to see an exclusive clip <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1QSKw5JLNNQ">Aur Kitne Tukde</a>. <br />
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<b>About the Speaker</b><br />
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Born in 1949, Kirti Jain, is an MA in English Literature from Delhi University and has a diploma in Theatre (specialization in Direction) from the National School of Drama (NSD). She joined the NSD in 1977 as Assistant Professor in Indian Theatre History and went on to head the institute as its Director for seven years from 1988-1995. <br />
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Prof. Jain has documented the performances and work process of several Indian theatre directors, with a focus on women directors, has published articles in theatre anthologies, and is currently associated with the publication of a Hindi Theatre Journal. Her most recent publication is an edited volume titled, <i>Badal Sircar: Search for a language of Theatre</i> which came out in November 2016. She is also a member of the Editorial board of the theatre journal <i>Studies In Theatre and Performance</i>, published by Exeter University. Additionally, Prof. Jain has contributed essays for the <i>Companion to the Indian Theatre</i> and <i>Oxford Encyclopaedia of Theatre and Performance</i>. She also participates in conferences, conducts workshops and gives lectures on theatre, both at the national and international level. She is a Founder Member and member of the Board of Trustees of <a href="http://www.natarang.org/">Natarang Pratishthan</a> - a Theatre Archives and Documentation Centre. In this capacity she has curated several international conferences and festivals including POORVA – a festival and conference of Asian Women Theatre Directors. <br />
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A recipient of several awards and felicitations, Prof. Jain was honored with the B.V Karanth Smrirti Puraskarfor her contribution to Theatre in 2010 and the Sangeet Natak akademi Award for Direction in 2011. <br />
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Prof. Jain's recent directorial work includes:<br />
- <i>Kaun Thagwa Nagaria Lootal Ho</i> on globalization and market economy and based on a seminal Hindi story by Kashinath Singh<br />
- <i>Sab Kuch Chakachak</i>, a play for young people about displacement<br />
- <i>Baghdad Burning</i>, a play that evolved from a blog on US invasion of Iraq<br />
- <i>Hamara Shahar Us Baras</i> about the impact of communal politics and based on Geetanjali Shree’s novel of the same name. <br />
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Apart from her contributions to theatre, Kirti Jain has also served a short stint with TV as a producer. She is currently engaged in evolving and a methodology of Curriculum Drama for intervention in the school curriculum in India.<br />
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Read more about Prof. Jain <a href="http://mytheatrecafe.com/cafe-special/nsd-prof-kirti-jain-urvashi-bhutalia-subarnalata-baghdad-burning-aur-kitane-tukde/">here</a>.<br />
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Event made possible with the support of the <a href="http://southasia.berkeley.edu/sarah-kailath-chair-memorial-lecture">Sarah Kailath Chair of India Studies</a><br />
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Islamophobia and the end of liberalism?<br />
8th Annual International Islamophobia Conference<br />
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Islamophobia Research and Documentation Project<br />
University of California, Berkeley<br />
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April 21st – 23rd, 2017<br />
Boalt Hall, Booth Auditorium, UC Berkeley<br />
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About #IslamophobiaConf<br />
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There is a need for an approach to the study of Islamophobia which explores the way in which it is being institutionalized by policies that promote and police a conception of Western societies that appears to be becoming increasingly exclusive and exclusionary. This conference provides an inter-disciplinary platform to reflect and respond to the crisis of post-Cold war liberal order by exploring the relationship between Islamophobia and the reshaping of Western societies.<br />
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The conference addresses questions of the relationship between liberalism (and neo-liberalism) and Islamophobia. We particularly welcome presentations that respond to the following themes:<br />
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What is the relation between the discourse of ‘take our country back’ and the post-Cold war liberal political order?<br />
What intellectual and political resources and possibilities now exist for imagining the West in contravention of Islamophobia?<br />
Is the presence of the non-white, culturally unassimilable, rights bearing subject a political problem for western liberalism? <br />
What is the relationship between neo-liberal economic policies and rise of Islamophobia?<br />
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Conference co-sponsors:<br />
Asian American and Asian Diaspora Studies, Ethnic Studies, Near Eastern Studies, Asian Americans Advancing Justice-Asian Law Caucus, Al-Falah Program of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, University of California, Berkeley. Arab and Muslim Ethnicities and Diaspora Studies, SFSU School of Ethnic Studies, Council on American Islamic Relations, Center for Islamic Studies of the Graduate Theological Union, Haas Institute for a Fair and Inclusive Society, Islamic Scholarship Fund, Muslim Student Association, Northern California Islamic Council, and Zaytuna College.http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/sseas.html?event_ID=106950&date=2017-04-21China’s Economic Statecraft Toward Myanmar and North Korea, Apr 24http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/sseas.html?event_ID=105446&date=2017-04-24
Tempted by their expansive authority over China’s economy, Chinese leaders are increasingly deploying economic resources such as foreign aid and overseas investments to influence policy decisions in other countries. To implement economic statecraft, China’s leaders rely upon state-owned companies, bureaucratic agencies, and local Chinese officials, even though they may be unreliable representatives of the central government. This presentation compares how central leaders’ delegation of authority shaped both the strategies and effectiveness of China’s economic statecraft in North Korea and Myanmar. In North Korea, the active engagement of top leaders and overlapping interests among key domestic actors enabled a higher level of coherence and effectiveness, while a severe principal-agent problem in Myanmar undermined the internal coherence and external effectiveness of China’s economic statecraft. My findings draw upon extensive field research in China’s border regions with both countries and in Myanmar.http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/sseas.html?event_ID=105446&date=2017-04-24Raju Nayak | Singing Resistance, Apr 25http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/sseas.html?event_ID=108370&date=2017-04-25
A talk that will explore the oral narratives of the Lambada Bhat community of Southern India, with a special focus on the Telangana region. The aim will be to probe how these narratives both effect the tribal community as well as accept, challenge, or disrupt conventional discourses on the history of the community as well as notions of development as promoted and sanctioned by the Indian nation state.<br />
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<b>Speaker Bio</b><br />
Dr. Rajunayak did much of his schooling at the government Zilla Parishat School while living in the Schedule Tribes welfare hostel. He graduated from Lal Bahadur College in Warangal and obtained his Masters in Human Resources from Kakatity University. He holds an M.A in English from CIEFL, and M.Phil and Ph.D. from the English and Foreign Languages University in Hyderbad, India. His doctoral thesis was on Oral Narratives of the Lambada Tribes from Telangana. He recently completed an ICSSR-sponsored major research projet on Lambada Bhat oral narratives.<br />
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Dr Rajunayak was the recipient of the Ford Foundation Fellowship and the Rajiv Gandhi Fellowship. He is an Associate Fellow at IIAS in Shimla and also a member of the editorial board of the Tribal Intellectual Collective India (TICI). He participated in the researchconducted by the Commonwealth Education Media Center for Asia, New Delhi. He also joined a project on AIF DE Schools in Hyderabad, conducted by TALEEM, Gujarat.<br />
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Dr Rajunayak developed several courses on India’s marginal communities: Literature from Marginal Cultures, Tribal Literature, An Introduction to Tribal Culture and Society, and Theorizing the Orient: Theory and Praxis in Indian Context. He has published articles on Telangana Bhat artisans, tribal literature and adivasi issues such as development and displacement. Currently he is a visiting scholar at the Institute for South Asia Studies at UC Berkeley.<br />
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Event made possible with the support of the <a href="http://southasia.berkeley.edu/sarah-kailath-chair-memorial-lecture">Sarah Kailath Chair of India Studies</a><br />
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The Philippines is typically characterized as a weak, even patrimonial, state dominated by powerful oligarchs and political families. By implication, the elite should be able to easily suppress reform and the state should be unwilling or incapable of carrying out reforms. Yet some efforts to achieve socioeconomic and governance reform have succeeded, at least partially. This presentation will examine the dynamics and outcomes of three extended efforts at social, economic and governance reform in the Philippines: 1) agrarian reform; 2) liberalization of the telecommunications sector; and 3) fiscal and budget reforms. In this guest lecture, theory and practice will be bridged in an examination of interlinked factors including the autonomy and capacity of the state, the limits on reform imposed by elite-dominated democracy, and the conditions and strategies that have enabled some reforms to succeed. <br />
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David Timberman is a political analyst and development practitioner with 30 years of experience analyzing and addressing political and governance challenges, principally in Southeast Asia. Currently he is a Visiting Scholar at Stanford's Asia-Pacific Research Center (APARC), where he is working on a book on the contemporary Philippine political economy. He has written extensively on political and governance issues in the Philippines and has edited or co-edited multi-author volumes on the Philippines, Cambodia, and economic policy reform in Southeast Asia.http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/sseas.html?event_ID=108759&date=2017-04-26ERG Colloquium: Jeni Miller, Apr 26http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/sseas.html?event_ID=106699&date=2017-04-26
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In its 2015 report, the UCL-Lancet Commission on Health and Climate Change stated that climate change poses “an unacceptably high and potentially catastrophic risk to human health.” The threats to health are myriad, ranging from heat-related morbidity/mortality, to increases in vector-borne diseases, to the impact of worsening air quality on respiratory and cardiovascular disease. Nutrition suffers due to impacts on agriculture, and climate refugees face innumerable threats to their health and well-being. Yet by and large, the health sector has played a limited role in addressing climate change. <br />
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This reticence has begun to shift, however, with major health professional organizations, hospital systems, patient organizations, and individual health professionals in the US and around the world getting involved, driven by a growing recognition of the urgency and magnitude of the climate change threat to health. At the Global Climate and Health Alliance, Jeni Miller works directly with many such organizations and individuals. In this presentation, Dr. Miller will talk about the challenges for the health sector of entering into this arena, and the power of the health voice in advocating for climate action. She will conclude by discussing the global health-sector-led campaign on air pollution, climate and health that launches next month, led by GCHA and its partners around the world.<br />
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BIOGRAPHY:<br />
Jeni Miller is Executive Director of the Global Climate and Health Alliance, where she coordinates the joint efforts of national, regional and global health NGOs addressing climate change. The Alliance works to minimize the health impacts of climate change and to maximize the health co-benefits of climate strategies, through leadership, advocacy, policy, research, and engagement. Dr. Miller has over fifteen years’ experience working on place-based, policy- and systems-change initiatives to improve community environments for health and reduce non-communicable diseases. Miller received her doctorate from the University of California, Berkeley.http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/sseas.html?event_ID=106699&date=2017-04-26Queen of Katwe | New Directions in Indian Cinema, Apr 26http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/sseas.html?event_ID=108001&date=2017-04-26
ISAS is proud to announce the 5th Sarah Kailath Memorial Lecture - a lecture series on the theme of Women and Leadership. <br />
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Our fifth Sarah Kailath Memorial lecture will be delivered by acclaimed film director Mira Nair.<br />
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Preceding Mira Nair's lecture on Sunday, May 7, we will be screening the following selected films from her vast collection: <br />
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<b>Admission with Cal ID only. RSVP Information below</b><br />
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<b>Wed, April 26 @ 5 pm in 10 Stephens Hall</b>: <br />
<a href="http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/csas.html?event_ID=108001"><b>Queen of Katwe | New Directions in Indian Cinema</b></a> <br />
<i>Queen of Katwe (2016) is the colorful true story of a young girl selling corn on the streets of rural Uganda whose world rapidly changes when she is introduced to the game of chess.</i><br />
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<b>RSVP for this film <a href="http://bit.ly/KatweQueenISAS">HERE</a></b><br />
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Other Mira Nair-related events below:<br />
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FILM SCREENING | Wed, April 5 @ 5:30 pm in 10 Stephens Hall: <br />
<a href="http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/csas.html?event_ID=107998"><b>The Reluctant Fundamentalist | New Directions in Indian Cinema</b></a> <br />
<i>The Reluctant Fundamentalist is a 2012 political thriller drama film based on the 2007 novel, The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid, directed by Mira Nair, starring Riz Ahmed and Kate Hudson in lead.</i><br />
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FILM SCREENING | Wed, April 12 @ 5 pm in 10 Stephens Hall: <br />
<a href="http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/csas.html?event_ID=107999"><b>The Namesake | New Directions in Indian Cinema</b></a> <br />
<i>The Namesake is a 2006 Indian-American drama film which was released in the United States on 9 March 2007, following screenings at film festivals in Toronto and New York City.</i><br />
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FILM SCREENING | Wed, April 19 @ 5 pm in 10 Stephens Hall: <br />
<a href="http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/csas.html?event_ID=108000&date=2017-04-19&filter=Target/Open%20To%20Audiences&filtersel="><b>Mississippi Masala | New Directions in Indian Cinema</b></a> <br />
<i>Mississippi Masala a 1991 romantic drama film directed by Mira Nair, based upon a screenplay by Sooni Taraporevala, starring Denzel Washington, Sarita Choudhury, and Roshan Seth.</i><br />
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FILM SCREENING | Wed, May 3 @ 5 pm in 10 Stephens Hall: <br />
<a href="http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/csas.html?event_ID=108002"><b>Monsoon Wedding | New Directions in Indian Cinema</b></a> <br />
<i>Monsoon Wedding is a 2001 film that explores the bonds that unite families in touching, dramatic, and comedic ways.</i><br />
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LECTURE | Sunday, May 7 @ 3 pm in Chevron Auditorium, International House: <br />
<a href="http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/csas.html?event_ID=107834&date=2017-05-07&filter=Target/Open%20To%20Audiences&filtersel="><b>The 5th Sarah Kailath Memorial Lecture by Mira Nair</b></a><br />
<i>This lecture series has been established in memory of Sarah Kailath (February 5 1941 - October 15, 2008), a long-time supporter of ISAS’s mission and activities and in whose name the center holds an endowed chair titled the "Sarah Kailath Chair in India Studies."</i>.<br />
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PLAY | Friday, May 5 to June 25 at the Berkeley Rep: <br />
<a href="https://www.berkeleyrep.org/season/1617/10662.asp#tabbed-nav=info"><b>Monsoon Wedding: The Musical</b></a><br />
<i>Award-winning film director Mira Nair brings her exuberant and sumptuous Monsoon Wedding to Berkeley Rep’s stage in this highly anticipated world premiere musical.</i><br />
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Event made possible with the support of the <a href="http://southasia.berkeley.edu/sarah-kailath-chair-memorial-lecture/">Sarah Kailath Chair of India Studies</a><br />
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The Center for Race & Gender Thursday Forum Series presents...<br />
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Investments in Vulnerability: The Limits of Charity & Protection<br />
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Sustaining the Disability Community: The Weaving of Activism, Kinship, and Cash Economies<br />
Dr. Juliann Anesi, Gender and Women’s Studies Department<br />
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Aoga Fiamalamalama and Loto Taumafai Schools are non-governmental organizations (NGOs), established in the 1970s for students with intellectual and physical disabilities in Samoa (an independent state in the Pacific). The impact of NGOs on “vulnerable communities” in developing countries is fraught with questions about the long-term benefits of such organizations to the local communities. This talk focuses on the limits of international aid in creating educational institutions for disabled students. Specifically, I examine the funding from organizations in New Zealand, Japan, and the US and how the women organizers used these monies to sustain the schools. I analyze the creative fundraising strategies by the schools and the impact of inconsistent funding to NGOs. I will discuss how international aid programs are tools of neocolonial monitoring practices for developing nations.<br />
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Proper Victim as Proper Police: The Legal Sanctuary of Immigrant Injury and Sexual Violence<br />
Dr. Lee Ann Wang, Berkeley School of Law<br />
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What does it mean to participate in an immigration raid in order to provide legal assistance to survivors of gender and sexual violence? On the one hand, the raid is a site of migration management through punishment, and on the other, an unfurling of protection and its possibilities. Such practices actually serve each other but are rarely seen as such. How is it then, that we have come to understand the beginnings of legal protection as so distinctly removed from punishment? This talk will discuss the forms of writing the law undergoes in order to establish the terms of protection in U.S. immigration law. Focusing on post 9/11 counter-terrorism measures through various points of increasing federal and local “cooperation,” I analyze the place of the Violence Against Women Act and immigrant protection provisions. I will discuss the role of rescue narratives and the law’s writing of racial injury. Both, are sites where immigrant women’s experiences are used to activate mechanisms of policing and punishment in ways that extend far beyond their own bodies and communities.http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/sseas.html?event_ID=106946&date=2017-04-27Spiritual Seekers, Pilgrims and Psychonauts: Travelers to India and the Transformation of Religion in the long 1960s, Apr 27http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/sseas.html?event_ID=108737&date=2017-04-27
Travel reports and autobiographical texts chronicling journeys to the East in the long 1960s have boomed in the last twenty years. “Western” travelers did not only associate India with “life-changing decisions” but also characterized the trip as a crucial experience and an initiation of a generation. The lecture takes up the historical-cultural thesis of value change and the “life-style revolution” in the long 1960s and explores some of the cultural effects of travel and temporary migration to India among the youth of the 1960s and 1970s on popular cultures in the FRG, the UK, the U.S., and India. It links the history of transnational youth culture to the history of “alternative” tourism and the history of migration and focuses on the transformation of religion in the long 1960s.http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/sseas.html?event_ID=108737&date=2017-04-27Andrew Ollett | The Prakrit Romance, Apr 28http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/sseas.html?event_ID=108516&date=2017-04-28
Join us for a talk by Dr. Andrew Ollett, Junior Fellow from the Society of Fellows at Harvard University.<br />
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<b>Talk Abstract</b><br />
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Koūhala’s Līlāvaī (ca. 800 CE) is not just a captivating specimen of the Prakrit romance. It provides an excellent opportunity to think about what both “Prakrit” and “romance” mean in the context of Indian literature. Līlāvaī has a lot of features that are typical of Indian story literature: demigods zooming around in aerial chariots, demon-infested forests, and lovers separated by curses. It is, however, also a Prakrit story, which means among other things that it is rich in allusions to the Prakrit literary tradition—the story’s protagonists, in fact, are the protagonists of this tradition. And it is also an important intervention into a genre, the romance, whose features and limits were never very strictly defined.<br />
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Center for Race & Gender Special Film Presentation<br />
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FORGETTING VIETNAM<br />
a film by Prof. Trinh T. Minh-ha<br />
Gender & Women’s Studies and Rhetoric<br />
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Friday, Apr. 28, 2017<br />
5:00 pm<br />
Multicultural Community Center<br />
MLK, Jr. Student Union Building, UC Berkeley<br />
(Location is wheelchair accessible. Event organized by the CRG Arts & Humanities Initiative.)<br />
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Touching on a trauma of international scale, FORGETTING VIETNAM is made in commemoration of the 40th anniversary of the end of the war and of its survivors. Vietnam in ancient times was named đất nứớc vạn xuân—the land of ten thousand springs. Using images of contemporary life that unfold as a dialogue between land and water, influential feminist theorist and filmmaker Trinh T. Minh-ha’s lyrical film essay draws inspiration from ancient legend and from water as a force evoked in every aspect of Vietnamese culture, creating a third space of historical and cultural re-memory—what local inhabitants, immigrants and veterans remember of yesterday’s stories to comment on today’s events.<br />
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Bio: Born in Vietnam, Trinh T. Minh-ha is a filmmaker, writer and music composer, and Professor of Gender & Women's Studies at UC Berkeley. Trinh Minh-ha has traveled and lectured extensively - in the States, as well as in Europe, Asia, Australia and New Zealand - on film, art, feminism, and cultural politics. She is also the recipient of many distiguished awards and grants. Among her many influential films, publications, and multi-media installations, Trinh T. Minh-ha is the author of Lovecidal. Walking with The Disappeared (2016), D-Passage. The Digital Way (2013), Elsewhere Within Here (Immigration, Refugeeism and The Boundary Event, 2010); The Digital Film Event (2005), Cinema Interval (1999), Framer Framed (on film, 1992), When the Moon Waxes Red, (on representation, gender and cultural politics, 1991), Woman, Native, Other (on post-coloniality and feminism, 1989), and En minuscules (poems, 1987). Learn more about Trinh T. Minh-ha and her powerful body of work.http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/sseas.html?event_ID=108365&date=2017-04-28Gamelan Sari Raras, Apr 29http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/sseas.html?event_ID=105591&date=2017-04-29
Gamelan Sari Raras<br />
Ben Brinner, co-director<br />
Midiyanto, co-director<br />
Javanese shadow play with gamelan accompaniment by Gamelan Sari Raras, featuring singer Heni Savitri<br />
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Gamelan Sari Raras is a performing ensemble in the Department of Music at UC Berkeley. Founded in 1988 under the leadership of Midiyanto and Ben Brinner it includes students and former students at Berkeley as well as musicians from surrounding communities, including ethnomusicologists Lisa Gold, Richard Wallis and Henry Spiller who specialize in various types of Indonesian music, as well as others who have trained in Indonesia.<br />
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Sari Raras has performed throughout Northern California with many distinguished Javanese guest artists, including Tristuti Rahmadi, Hardja Susilo, B. Subono, Sumarsam, I.M. Harjito, Djoko Walujo, Ben Soeharto, Nyoman Wenten, Nanik Wenten, Eko Supriyanto, Didik Nini Thowok, Sigit Soegito, and Darsono. The primary repertoire consists of traditional Javanese gamelan music, but sometimes includes contemporary works, too. Javanese shadow play (wayang) and dance are often featured.http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/sseas.html?event_ID=105591&date=2017-04-29Teaching in Summer Workshop, May 2http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/sseas.html?event_ID=107890&date=2017-05-02
The American Cultures (AC) Center extends an invitation to all summer to attend our ‘Teaching in Summer’ workshop. Although this workshop will discuss the opportunities and obstacles of teaching AC courses, in particular, we will also spend significant time discussing general approaches to teaching courses in the summer, and therefore want to extend this invitation to all who might find value in a discussion of how to approach summer course teaching.http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/sseas.html?event_ID=107890&date=2017-05-02Young Scholars Research Symposium, May 2http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/sseas.html?event_ID=106094&date=2017-05-02
The Institute for South Asia Studies invites you to join us for our second annual young scholars research symposium on South Asia. This symposium will showcase the work of UC Berkeley students who have finished their theses on diverse topics related to South Asia.<br />
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<b>Agenda</b><br />
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4:10: Welcome<br />
4:15: <a href="http://iis.berkeley.edu/about/ariana-pemberton">Ariana Pemberton</a> | <b>Geography, Identity, and Monumentality: Global Cosmopolitanisms and the Martand Sun Temple in Kashmir</b><br />
------<i>(Discussant)</i> Robert Goldman<br />
4:40: <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/sanchit-shorewala-10299b2a">Sanchit Shorewala</a> | <b>Linking Colonial Peasant Revolts and Indian Agrarian Policy: The Role of History in Reform</b><br />
------<i>(Discussant)</i> Gerard Roland<br />
5:05: <a href="http://www.rebeccadharmapalan.com/">Rebecca Dharmapalan</a> | <b>Tune Your Ears</b><br />
------<i>(Discussant)</i> Darren Zook<br />
5:30: <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/jowashi">Zhuo Shi</a> | <b>Adoption of the Patent (Amendment) Act of 2005: An Analysis of the Relative Effects on Domestic Companies and Multinational Subsidiaries</b><br />
------<i>(Discussant)</i> Vaishnavi Surendra<br />
5:55: <a href="http://southasia.berkeley.edu/lei-dingkun">Lei Dingkun</a> | <b>A Discussion—Challenges of SEZ development in India: Timing, Policy Positioning and Governance</b><br />
------<i>(Discussant)</i> Sanchita Saxena<br />
6:30 - 7 PM - Reception<br />
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<b>Presenter Bios</b><br />
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Born and raised in the Bay Area, <a href="http://iis.berkeley.edu/about/ariana-pemberton">Ariana Pemberton</a> went to school here her entire life. After completing high school, she attended Berkeley City College for three years and transferred to UC Berkeley as Junior in the History of Art department. With a passion for the arts, a fascination for religions and their complex, intersecting networks, and a strong interest in ancient histories, she found her niche in the department through exploring pre-modern South Asian topics. While her research at Berkeley has largely been concerned with the Western Himalayan region, Ariana's general interests include a much broader scope. She will be graduating from UC Berkeley this May, but will continue her education in Jaipur as a third-year Hindi student, and eventually apply to a graduate school to work on achieving a PhD. <br />
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<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/sanchit-shorewala-10299b2a">Sanchit Shorewala</a> is a graduating senior majoring in Economics and Statistics. His interests in economics centre around the role of institutions and history in determining policy outcomes, the history of economic thought, and power differentials in socio-economic organization. Non-academically, he enjoys reading history and political philosophy and watching films and stand-up comedy.<br />
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<a href="http://www.rebeccadharmapalan.com/">Rebecca Dharmapalan</a> is an artist and activist from Oakland, California. Her work is focused around the issue of Child Sex Trafficking and the abolishment of modern day slavery through creativity and solidarity. At UC Berkeley, Rebecca focus is in several fields including Sociology as well as Global Poverty. Her first film "International Boulevard" was awarded Grand Prize at Girls Impact the World film festival presented at Harvard University, the Los Angeles Film Festival, Delhi’s Indie Art Week and several more. She has gone on speaking tours all across the country at the Ashoka Future Forum, and a TEDxTalk in New York City. This year, Rebecca was selected for Teen Vogue 21 under 21: girls and femmes changing the world, and was recently awarded as Glamour’s College Women of the Year 2017. <br />
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<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/jowashi">Zhuo Shi</a>, is currently a senior at UC Berkeley, double majoring in Economics, and Molecular and Cell Biology. In the realm of economics, she is interested in intellectual property rights, health economics, and international trade. This is reflected in her research on the effects of patent rights on pharmaceutical companies in India. Additionally, she is an undergraduate researcher in a cancer biology lab at UC Berkeley, studying the role of ubiquitylation during cell growth and differentiation. Outside of academics, she teaches piano with The Music Connection, make ceramics pieces, and dance on a hip hop dance team. After graduation, she is taking a gap year to further dive into health economics and to apply to medical school. <br />
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<a href="http://southasia.berkeley.edu/lei-dingkun">Lei Dingkun</a>, currently a Ph.D. Candidate in the School of Social Sciences, Tsinghua University, is interested in India’s domestic politics, Indian local governance and Special Economic Zones. He has acquired his B.A. in Hindi Language and literature in Beijing Foreign Studies University during which he spent more than one year in India to improve his language skills as well as deepen his understanding of Indian culture and society. As an ISAS Visiting Scholar, he will be researching India’s local governance and development through a study of SEZs in India.http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/sseas.html?event_ID=106094&date=2017-05-02Buddhist Sectarianism in Burma’s Last Kingdom, May 2http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/sseas.html?event_ID=107313&date=2017-05-02
The collapse of Burma’s final kingdom was devastating for the Buddhist organizations that depended on its royal sponsorship. The nineteenth-century encroachment of the British Raj crippled both the Konbaung Dynasty and its once-powerful monastic establishment, but it also created opportunities for opposition parties. One adversarial Buddhist sect, the Paramats, was particularly active between the Second Anglo-Burmese War in 1852 and the total colonization of the country in 1886. This reformist sect has been something of a mystery in the study of Burmese Buddhism because of minimal references to them in official Burmese materials. This paper examines a previously unstudied collection of documents dating from 1830–1880 found in an American missionary archive to argue that the Paramats were not a kind of Mahayanist group dedicated to propounding emptiness teachings, as scholars have argued, but rather, they were a Burmese Buddhist organization concerned with protesting laxity within mainstream monasteries and excess at royally-sponsored shrines. These archival documents suggest that scholars should attend to politics, as well as philosophy, to understand this particular sectarian development and similar religious reform movements at the end of the Konbaung Dynasty. <br />
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Alexandra Kaloyanides is a Postdoctoral Scholar at the Ho Center for Buddhist Studies at Stanford University. She researches Burmese religions and American religious history. Her book manuscript, “Objects of Conversion, Relics of Resistance,” examines the religious contestations, conversions, and transformations during the nineteenth-century American Baptist mission to Burma.http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/sseas.html?event_ID=107313&date=2017-05-02Noon Concert: Gamelan, May 3http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/sseas.html?event_ID=105577&date=2017-05-03
Gamelan <br />
Javanese and Balinese Gamelan Music performed by student ensembles under the direction of Midiyanto, Dewa Putu Berata and Lisa Gold<br />
FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC<br />
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Featuring the Music Department’s varied and diverse performance activities, the Department of Music presents a series of free weekly concerts each semester in Hertz Hall. Inaugurated in 1953, these concerts are very popular and well attended by those on campus and in the wider community. Traditionally on Wednesdays, each concert begins promptly at 12:15 and ends by 1pm.http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/sseas.html?event_ID=105577&date=2017-05-03Interpreting Communal Violence in Myanmar, May 3http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/sseas.html?event_ID=106073&date=2017-05-03
From 2012 to 2014, Myanmar experienced recurrent, sporadic, collective acts of lethal violence, realised through repeated public expressions that Muslims constitute an existential threat to Buddhists. This talk, which draws on scholarship from Indonesia and India, as well as from other work on Myanmar, seeks to make a case for classing and analyzing the violence as “communal”. Dr. Cheesman also advocates for interpretive modes of inquiry into the violence, and into the practices of interpretation enabling it. Eschewing methods aimed at producing a purportedly coherent picture of what happened, interpretive research raises questions about conventional readings of violence, and the seemingly self-evident categories for its analysis. But interpretivists, to be argued here, do not repudiate the search for factual truth. They make uncertain truth claims, by attending, in this case, to the processes, narratives, histories, and typologies that have contributed to the production of violence.<br />
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Dr. Nick Cheesman is a research fellow in the Department of Political and Social Change at Australian National University and a Visiting Fellow for this academic year at the Institute of Advanced Study in Princeton. He is the author of <i>Opposing the Rule of Law: How Myanmar’s Courts Make Law and Order</i> (Cambridge University Press, 2015). He has received a research grant from the Australian Research Council that seeks to examine the politics of torture in Thailand and Myanmar.http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/sseas.html?event_ID=106073&date=2017-05-03Monsoon Wedding | New Directions in Indian Cinema, May 3http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/sseas.html?event_ID=108002&date=2017-05-03
ISAS is proud to announce the 5th Sarah Kailath Memorial Lecture - a lecture series on the theme of Women and Leadership. <br />
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Our fifth Sarah Kailath Memorial lecture will be delivered by acclaimed film director Mira Nair.<br />
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Preceding Mira Nair's lecture on Sunday, May 7, we will be screening the following selected films from her vast collection: <br />
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<b>Admission with Cal ID only. RSVP information below</b><br />
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<b>Wed, May 3 @ 5 pm in 10 Stephens Hall</b>: <br />
<a href="http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/csas.html?event_ID=108002&date=2017-05-03&filter=Target/Open%20To%20Audiences&filtersel="><b>Monsoon Wedding | New Directions in Indian Cinema</b></a> <br />
<i>Monsoon Wedding is a 2001 film that explores the bonds that unite families in touching, dramatic, and comedic ways.</i><br />
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<b>RSVP for this film <a href="http://bit.ly/MonsoonISAS">HERE</a></b><br />
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Other Mira Nair-related events below:<br />
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FILM SCREENING | Wed, April 5 @ 5:30 pm in 10 Stephens Hall: <br />
<a href="http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/csas.html?event_ID=107998"><b>The Reluctant Fundamentalist | New Directions in Indian Cinema</b></a> <br />
<i>The Reluctant Fundamentalist is a 2012 political thriller drama film based on the 2007 novel, The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid, directed by Mira Nair, starring Riz Ahmed and Kate Hudson in lead.</i><br />
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FILM SCREENING | Wed, April 12 @ 5 pm in 10 Stephens Hall: <br />
<a href="http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/csas.html?event_ID=107999"><b>The Namesake | New Directions in Indian Cinema</b></a> <br />
<i>The Namesake is a 2006 Indian-American drama film which was released in the United States on 9 March 2007, following screenings at film festivals in Toronto and New York City.</i><br />
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FILM SCREENING | Wed, April 19 @ 5 pm in 10 Stephens Hall: <br />
<a href="http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/csas.html?event_ID=108000&date=2017-04-19&filter=Target/Open%20To%20Audiences&filtersel="><b>Mississippi Masala | New Directions in Indian Cinema</b></a> <br />
<i>Mississippi Masala a 1991 romantic drama film directed by Mira Nair, based upon a screenplay by Sooni Taraporevala, starring Denzel Washington, Sarita Choudhury, and Roshan Seth.</i><br />
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FILM SCREENING | Wed, April 26 @ 5 pm in 10 Stephens Hall: <br />
<a href="http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/csas.html?event_ID=108001&date=2017-04-26&filter=Target/Open%20To%20Audiences&filtersel="><b>Queen of Katwe | New Directions in Indian Cinema</b></a> <br />
<i>Queen of Katwe (2016) is the colorful true story of a young girl selling corn on the streets of rural Uganda whose world rapidly changes when she is introduced to the game of chess.</i><br />
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LECTURE | Sunday, May 7 @ 3 pm in Chevron Auditorium, International House: <br />
<a href="http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/csas.html?event_ID=107834&date=2017-05-07&filter=Target/Open%20To%20Audiences&filtersel="><b>The 5th Sarah Kailath Memorial Lecture by Mira Nair</b></a><br />
<i>This lecture series has been established in memory of Sarah Kailath (February 5 1941 - October 15, 2008), a long-time supporter of ISAS’s mission and activities and in whose name the center holds an endowed chair titled the "Sarah Kailath Chair in India Studies."</i>.<br />
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PLAY | Friday, May 5 to June 25 at the Berkeley Rep: <br />
<a href="https://www.berkeleyrep.org/season/1617/10662.asp#tabbed-nav=info"><b>Monsoon Wedding: The Musical</b></a><br />
<i>Award-winning film director Mira Nair brings her exuberant and sumptuous Monsoon Wedding to Berkeley Rep’s stage in this highly anticipated world premiere musical.</i><br />
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Event made possible with the support of the <a href="http://southasia.berkeley.edu/sarah-kailath-chair-memorial-lecture/">Sarah Kailath Chair of India Studies</a><br />
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Like us on <a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/Center-for-South-Asia-Studies/76502306608">FACEBOOK</a><br />
Follow us on <a href="https://twitter.com/ISASatBerkeley">TWITTER</a><br />
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<a href="http://southasia.berkeley.edu/parking-around-campus">PARKING INFORMATION</a><br />
<i>Please note that parking is not always easily available in Berkeley. Take public transportation if possible or arrive early to secure your spot.</i>http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/sseas.html?event_ID=108002&date=2017-05-03Return of Ten Thousand Dharmas: A Celebration in Honor of Patricia Berger, May 5http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/sseas.html?event_ID=105123&date=2017-05-05
Complete schedule: http://ieas.berkeley.edu/ccs/events/2017.05.05.html<br />
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Patricia Berger served as the curator of Chinese art at the Asian Art Museum, San Francisco from 1982 to 1994. She then returned to her alma mater to mentor another generation of graduate students as Professor of Chinese Art at the University of California at Berkeley. In celebration of her well-deserved retirement, we invite you to join her current and former students and colleagues to honor her contributions to the field.http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/sseas.html?event_ID=105123&date=2017-05-05Return of Ten Thousand Dharmas: A Celebration in Honor of Patricia Berger, May 6http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/sseas.html?event_ID=105124&date=2017-05-06
Complete schedule: http://ieas.berkeley.edu/ccs/events/2017.05.05.html<br />
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This event begins on Friday, May 5, 4 pm, Brower Center with a keynote speech by Professor Berger.http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/sseas.html?event_ID=105124&date=2017-05-06Kalpana |Uday Shankar | India, 1948, May 6http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/sseas.html?event_ID=109046&date=2017-05-06
This gorgeous experimental drama, the only film by celebrated dancer Uday Shankar (brother of Ravi Shankar), is the semi-autobiographical story of a young man’s dream to establish an arts academy in the Himalayas.http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/sseas.html?event_ID=109046&date=2017-05-06Celluloid Man | Shivendra Singh Dungarpur, | India, 2012, May 6http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/sseas.html?event_ID=108898&date=2017-05-06
Celebrate a passion for film with this portrait of the pioneering efforts of film preservationist P. K. Nair, who founded the National Film Archive of India in 1964. “One of the best movies ever made about cinema ” (Mark Cousins).http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/sseas.html?event_ID=108898&date=2017-05-06Celluloid Man | Shivendra Singh Dungarpur, | India, 2012, May 6http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/sseas.html?event_ID=109045&date=2017-05-06
Celebrate a passion for film with this portrait of the pioneering efforts of film preservationist P. K. Nair, who founded the National Film Archive of India in 1964. “One of the best movies ever made about cinema ” (Mark Cousins).http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/sseas.html?event_ID=109045&date=2017-05-06Between Worlds - A Conversation with Mira Nair, May 7http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/sseas.html?event_ID=107834&date=2017-05-07
ISAS is proud to announce the 5th <a href="http://southasia.berkeley.edu/sarah-kailath-chair-memorial-lecture"><b>Sarah Kailath Memorial Lecture</b></a> - a lecture series on the theme of Women and Leadership. This lecture series has been established in memory of Sarah Kailath (February 5, 1941 - October 15, 2008), a long-time supporter of ISAS’s mission and activities and in whose name the Institute holds an endowed chair titled the <a href="http://southasia.berkeley.edu/sarah-kailath-chair-memorial-lecture"><b>Sarah Kailath Chair in India Studies</b></a>.<br />
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Our fifth Sarah Kailath Memorial lecturer will be acclaimed film director <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mira_Nair"><b>Mira Nair</b></a>. The event will be in the form of a conversation between Ms. Nair and <a href="http://vcresearch.berkeley.edu/faculty/harsha-ram"><b>Harsha Ram</b></a>, Associate Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures and Comparative Literature at UC Berkeley, and will include a Q&A session where the audience will be able to engage with Ms. Nair. <br />
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<b>Speaker Bio</b><br />
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mira_Nair"><b>Mira Nair</b></a> is a prolific filmmaker who fluidly moves between Hollywood and independent cinema. After several years of making documentary films, she made <i>Salaam Bombay!</i> (1988), the first Indian film to win the coveted Camera D’Or at the Cannes Film Festival and more than 25 international awards including an Academy Award nomination for Best Foreign Film. Nair then directed <i>Mississippi Masala</i> (1991), <i>The Perez Family</i> (1995), and <i>My Own Country</i> (1998). Her <i>Monsoon Wedding</i> (2001) won the Golden Lion, Venice’s top prize in cinema. Her most recent films include <i>Amelia</i> (2009), <i>The Reluctant Fundamentalist</i> (2013), <i>Words With Gods</i> (2014), and <i>Queen of Katwe</i> (2016). <br />
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Raised in India, schooled at Harvard, and living in New York City, Mira Nair uses her natural grasp of identity conflict to make films that explore race, gender, inter-generational strife, cultural appropriation and displacement. A poignant speaker, she captures beautifully the tug of competing worlds felt by millions of immigrants around the world.<br />
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The <a href="http://southasia.berkeley.edu/sarah-kailath-chair-memorial-lecture"><b>Sarah Kailath Memorial Lecture on "Women and Leadership,"</b></a> derives from the <a href="http://southasia.berkeley.edu/sarah-kailath-chair-memorial-lecture"><b>Sarah Kailath Chair in India Studies</b></a>. The chair was established by Thomas Kailath, and Vinita and Narendra Gupta in honor of Dr. Kailath's wife, Sarah Kailath, to enhance awareness and knowledge of issues relating to the Indian subcontinent. The current Sarah Kailath Chair is <a href="http://southasia.berkeley.edu/lawrence-cohen-0"><b>Lawrence Cohen</b></a>, Chair, Institute for South Asia Studies and Professor, Anthropology and South Asian Studies. Professors Raka Ray, Robert P. Goldman and Thomas Metcalf previously held the Chair.<br />
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Preceding Mira Nair's lecture on Sunday, May 7, we will be screening the following selected films from her vast collection: <br />
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<b>Admission with Cal ID only for the following film screenings. Lecture on May 7 is free and open to the public.</b><br />
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FILM SCREENING | Wed, April 5 @ 5 pm in 10 Stephens Hall: <br />
<a href="http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/csas.html?event_ID=107998"><b>The Reluctant Fundamentalist | New Directions in Indian Cinema</b></a> <br />
<i>A 2012 ​film based ​up​on ​a novel​ ​by Mohsin Hamid, ​on the impact of the Al Qaeda attacks on one Pakistani man and his treatment by Americans in reaction to them​. Starring Riz Ahmed and Kate Hudson.</i><br />
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FILM SCREENING | Wed, April 12 @ 5 pm in 10 Stephens Hall: <br />
<a href="http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/csas.html?event_ID=107999"><b>The Namesake | New Directions in Indian Cinema</b></a> <br />
<i>A 2006 drama ​based upon a novel by Jhumpa Lahiri on the struggles of first-generation immigrants from West Bengal to the United States, and their American-born children​. Starring Tabu, Irfan Khan, and Kal Penn.</i><br />
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FILM SCREENING | Wed, April 19 @ 5 pm in 10 Stephens Hall: <br />
<a href="http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/csas.html?event_ID=108000&date=2017-04-19&filter=Target/Open%20To%20Audiences&filtersel="><b>Mississippi Masala | New Directions in Indian Cinema</b></a> <br />
<i>A 1991 film ​that ​explores ​an ​interracial romance between African​ ​Americans and Indian Americans in the ​US.​ Starring Denzel Washington, Sarita Choudhury, and Roshan Seth.</i><br />
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FILM SCREENING | Wed, April 26 @ 5 pm in 10 Stephens Hall: <br />
<a href="http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/csas.html?event_ID=108001&date=2017-04-26&filter=Target/Open%20To%20Audiences&filtersel="><b>Queen of Katwe | New Directions in Indian Cinema</b></a> <br />
<i>A 2016​ true story of a young girl selling corn on the streets of rural Uganda whose world rapidly changes when she is introduced to ​the game of ​chess​. Starring David Oyelowo​ and Lupita Nyong'o.</i><br />
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FILM SCREENING | Wed, May 3 @ 5 pm in 10 Stephens Hall: <br />
<a href="http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/csas.html?event_ID=108002"><b>Monsoon Wedding | New Directions in Indian Cinema</b></a> <br />
<i>A 2001 film which depicts romantic entanglements during a ​traditional ​Punjabi ​Hindu ​wedding in Delhi​ and explores the bonds that unite families in touching, dramatic, and comedic ways​​. ​Starring ​Naseeruddin Shah​ and Lillete Dubey.</i><br />
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PLAY | Friday, May 5 to June 25 at the Berkeley Rep: <br />
<a href="https://www.berkeleyrep.org/season/1617/10662.asp#tabbed-nav=info"><b>Monsoon Wedding: The Musical</b></a><br />
<i>Award-winning film director Mira Nair brings her exuberant and sumptuous Monsoon Wedding to Berkeley Rep’s stage in this highly anticipated world premiere musical.</i><br />
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Like us on <a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/Center-for-South-Asia-Studies/76502306608"><b>FACEBOOK</b></a><br />
Follow us on <a href="https://twitter.com/ISASatBerkeley"><b>TWITTER</b></a><br />
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<a href="http://southasia.berkeley.edu/parking-around-campus"><b>PARKING INFORMATION</b></a><br />
<i>Please note that parking is not always easily available in Berkeley. Take public transportation if possible or arrive early to secure your spot.</i>http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/sseas.html?event_ID=107834&date=2017-05-07Kanak Mani Dixit | South Asian Regionalism under the Modi Government, May 8http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/sseas.html?event_ID=107387&date=2017-05-08
Join us for a talk by Kanak Mani Dixit, Author, Journalist and Founding Editor of Himal Southasian magazine, based in Kathmandu.<br />
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<b>TALK ABSTRACT</b><br />
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The concept of Southasian regionalism is under attack before it has even got a fair hearing. It has always been received with skepticism by the various governments for its potential to challenge the all-powerful notion of the nation-state. With the arrival of Narendra Modi on the stage, he has proceeded to weaken the SAARC organization, a weak regional entity which nevertheless indicated the governmental 'buy-in' of the idea of regionalism. The cancellation of the 19th SAARC Summit meant to be held in Islamabad, at the instigation of New Delhi, was the best indication of the weakening Southasian regionalism. It followed up on the pointed words by Indian Prime Minister Modi at the 18th SAARC Summit in Kathmandu, where he said that the bonds between countries of the region would grow "through SAARC or outside it, among us all or some of us". This weakening of the Southasian concept is unfortunate because, all said and done, it is an idea that promotes both social justice as well as multiple, complementary and accommodating identities. Instead, we have sharper borders and harsher rhetoric. If we value the idea of historical India in the modern era, then we must work to strengthen the idea of Southasian regionalism.<br />
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<b>SPEAKER BIO</b><br />
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Kanak Mani Dixit, is a journalist, writer, civil rights activist and Founding editor of the Himal Southasian regional review magazine, as well as publisher of the Nepali language weekly Himal Khabarpatrika. He has degrees in Law (Delhi University), International Relations and Journalism (Columbia University). He has been a journalist since 1971, and worked in the United Nations Secretariat between 1982 and 1990. Lately, he has been engaged in civil rights activism in relation to peace, democracy and human rights in Nepal.<br />
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Himal Southasian was begun as a Himalayan magazine in 1987 and transformed into a Southasian periodical in 1996. Since then, through the pages of the magazine, Dixit has been engaged in the quest to define the Southasian space and identity. He is also a political commentator on Nepal affairs, in the Nepali language dailies, in Himal Khabarpatrika, The Nepali Times and (as a columnist) The Kathmandu Post.<br />
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Beyond journalism, Dixit is linked to the Film Southasia festival of documentaries, Spinal Injury Sangha-Nepal, Shikshyak magazine for Nepal's school teachers, and the Jagadamba printing press. He is also involved in activities related to libraries and archiving (through the Madan Puraskar Pustakalaya), social science education (Social Science Baha), human rights (the Accountability Watch Committee), public transport (Sajha Yatayat), architectural preservation (the Kathmandu Valley Preservation Trust), and activities broadly in the cultural sphere through the Himal Association, the YalaMaya Kendra and other organisations.<br />
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Dixit is translator of Bishweshwor Prasad Koirala's Atmabrittanta: Late Life Reflections and is a children's author, including of the much-translated work, The Adventures of a Nepali Frog and the more recent Every Which Way up Everest. Having contributed to several Southasian anthologies, he is also author of two works of political commentary, Dekheko Muluk ('The Country I See', Jagadamba Prakashan) and Peace Politics of Nepal (Himal Books).<br />
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Some of Dixit's writings are archived at www.kanakmanidixit.com.<br />
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Event made possible with the support of the <a href="http://southasia.berkeley.edu/sarah-kailath-chair-memorial-lecture">Sarah Kailath Chair of India Studies</a><br />
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Like us on <a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/Center-for-South-Asia-Studies/76502306608">FACEBOOK</a><br />
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<a href="http://southasia.berkeley.edu/parking-around-campus">PARKING INFORMATION</a><br />
<i>Please note that parking is not always easily available in Berkeley. Take public transportation if possible or arrive early to secure your spot.</i>http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/sseas.html?event_ID=107387&date=2017-05-08A Country Called Syria, thru Aug 31http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/sseas.html?event_ID=109169&date=2017-05-12
Journey through A Country Called Syria, a traveling collection that brings to life the history and heritage of Syrian culture. This unique exhibition allows its viewers to explore Syria from its ancient beginnings to the present civil war.<br />
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The region that makes up the modern country of Syria is one of the oldest cradles of human civilization, and this exhibit highlights UC Berkeley's rich library collection on Syria along with the cultural artifacts we were lent. The aim of the exhibition is to highlight some of that diversity and complexity and give Syria and the Syrian a more accessible human dimension.http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/sseas.html?event_ID=109169&date=2017-05-12Wedding Album, May 12http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/sseas.html?event_ID=108357&date=2017-05-12
Twenty-two-year old Vidula is about to embark on the mother of all journeys – an arranged marriage to a "suitable boy" from the US she has never met. Her brother Rohit, an up-and-coming professional with a Catholic girlfriend is busy fending off marriage brokers and "one of a kind" proposals while her sister Hema has arrived with baggage of more than one kind from Australia, where she lives with her high-flying bank executive husband and two children. Thrown into the mix are a teenage boy with raging hormones who nurses an unabashed obsession for Hema, the household cook who is harboring some disturbing secrets of her own and a colorful supporting cast of characters, each with exasperatingly funny and unique eccentricities.<br />
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In this hilarious and moving spectacle, renowned playwright Girish Karnad serves up some deeply penetrating insights about the Indian psyche and reveals how certain notions of wealth, class, sexual propriety, tradition and modernity form the essential fabric of middle class society in contemporary India.<br />
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The play is set in Dharwad.<br />
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English | 2 hrs | Age 16+<br />
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Written by <b>GIRISH KARNAD</b><br />
Directed & Produced by <b>SINDU SINGH</b><br />
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Performed by <a href="http://www.bayareadrama.company/upcoming">Bay Area Drama Company</a><br />
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<b>Showtimes</b><br />
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Saturday, May 06, 630 PM<br />
Sunday, May 07, 2 PM<br />
Friday, May 12, 8 PM<br />
Saturday, May 13, 2 PM<br />
Saturday, May 13, 6 PM<br />
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<b>Tickets</b><br />
<a href="http://www.bayareadrama.company/tickets">TICKETS</a><br />
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<b>Venue + Driving Directions</b><br />
<a href="https://www.google.com/maps/place/37%C2%B021'30.1%22N+122%C2%B001'29.8%22W/@37.3583684,-122.033708,15z/data=!4m2!3m1!1s0x0:0x0?hl=en">Sunnyvale Theatre - 550 East Remington Drive, Sunnyvale, CA 94087</a><br />
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<i>About the Bay Area Drama Company: Meaningful theatre. Mostly</i>.<br />
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Theatre is art. Theatre is entertainment. Theatre can also have purpose. The theatre we choose to do is gripping and beautiful. Sometimes it is zany because we also like to have a good frolic. But it is always intelligent and thought provoking. It will leave you with something to take back after the curtain call. We stage pieces that are either original works by South Asian playwrights, or adapted to a South Asian context. Most of our plays are in English. So, even if you are not from the subcontinent, you can enjoy great theatre and learn about our culture.<br />
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Our latest production is always on our <a href="http://www.bayareadrama.company/upcoming">Upcoming page</a>. To stay updated on our work, please sign up for our email list <a href="http://www.bayareadrama.company/join-us">here</a>. If you’d like to get involved as an artist or help out as part of the crew, please let us know <a href="http://www.bayareadrama.company/join-us">here</a>.<br />
<br />
Like us on <a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/Center-for-South-Asia-Studies/76502306608">FACEBOOK</a><br />
Follow us on <a href="https://twitter.com/ISASatBerkeley">TWITTER</a><br />
<br />
<a href="http://southasia.berkeley.edu/parking-around-campus">PARKING INFORMATION</a><br />
<i>Please note that parking in not always easily available in Berkeley. Take public transportation if possible or arrive early to secure your spot.</i>http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/sseas.html?event_ID=108357&date=2017-05-12Wedding Album, May 13http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/sseas.html?event_ID=108358&date=2017-05-13
Twenty-two-year old Vidula is about to embark on the mother of all journeys – an arranged marriage to a "suitable boy" from the US she has never met. Her brother Rohit, an up-and-coming professional with a Catholic girlfriend is busy fending off marriage brokers and "one of a kind" proposals while her sister Hema has arrived with baggage of more than one kind from Australia, where she lives with her high-flying bank executive husband and two children. Thrown into the mix are a teenage boy with raging hormones who nurses an unabashed obsession for Hema, the household cook who is harboring some disturbing secrets of her own and a colorful supporting cast of characters, each with exasperatingly funny and unique eccentricities.<br />
<br />
In this hilarious and moving spectacle, renowned playwright Girish Karnad serves up some deeply penetrating insights about the Indian psyche and reveals how certain notions of wealth, class, sexual propriety, tradition and modernity form the essential fabric of middle class society in contemporary India.<br />
<br />
The play is set in Dharwad.<br />
<br />
English | 2 hrs | Age 16+<br />
<br />
Written by <b>GIRISH KARNAD</b><br />
Directed & Produced by <b>SINDU SINGH</b><br />
<br />
Performed by <a href="http://www.bayareadrama.company/upcoming">Bay Area Drama Company</a><br />
<br />
<b>Showtimes</b><br />
<br />
Saturday, May 06, 630 PM<br />
Sunday, May 07, 2 PM<br />
Friday, May 12, 8 PM<br />
Saturday, May 13, 2 PM<br />
Saturday, May 13, 6 PM<br />
<br />
<b>Tickets</b><br />
<a href="http://www.bayareadrama.company/tickets">TICKETS</a><br />
<br />
<b>Venue + Driving Directions</b><br />
<a href="https://www.google.com/maps/place/37%C2%B021'30.1%22N+122%C2%B001'29.8%22W/@37.3583684,-122.033708,15z/data=!4m2!3m1!1s0x0:0x0?hl=en">Sunnyvale Theatre - 550 East Remington Drive, Sunnyvale, CA 94087</a><br />
<br />
<i>About the Bay Area Drama Company: Meaningful theatre. Mostly</i>.<br />
<br />
Theatre is art. Theatre is entertainment. Theatre can also have purpose. The theatre we choose to do is gripping and beautiful. Sometimes it is zany because we also like to have a good frolic. But it is always intelligent and thought provoking. It will leave you with something to take back after the curtain call. We stage pieces that are either original works by South Asian playwrights, or adapted to a South Asian context. Most of our plays are in English. So, even if you are not from the subcontinent, you can enjoy great theatre and learn about our culture.<br />
<br />
Our latest production is always on our <a href="http://www.bayareadrama.company/upcoming">Upcoming page</a>. To stay updated on our work, please sign up for our email list <a href="http://www.bayareadrama.company/join-us">here</a>. If you’d like to get involved as an artist or help out as part of the crew, please let us know <a href="http://www.bayareadrama.company/join-us">here</a>.<br />
<br />
Like us on <a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/Center-for-South-Asia-Studies/76502306608">FACEBOOK</a><br />
Follow us on <a href="https://twitter.com/ISASatBerkeley">TWITTER</a><br />
<br />
<a href="http://southasia.berkeley.edu/parking-around-campus">PARKING INFORMATION</a><br />
<i>Please note that parking in not always easily available in Berkeley. Take public transportation if possible or arrive early to secure your spot.</i>http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/sseas.html?event_ID=108358&date=2017-05-13Wedding Album, May 13http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/sseas.html?event_ID=108359&date=2017-05-13
Twenty-two-year old Vidula is about to embark on the mother of all journeys – an arranged marriage to a "suitable boy" from the US she has never met. Her brother Rohit, an up-and-coming professional with a Catholic girlfriend is busy fending off marriage brokers and "one of a kind" proposals while her sister Hema has arrived with baggage of more than one kind from Australia, where she lives with her high-flying bank executive husband and two children. Thrown into the mix are a teenage boy with raging hormones who nurses an unabashed obsession for Hema, the household cook who is harboring some disturbing secrets of her own and a colorful supporting cast of characters, each with exasperatingly funny and unique eccentricities.<br />
<br />
In this hilarious and moving spectacle, renowned playwright Girish Karnad serves up some deeply penetrating insights about the Indian psyche and reveals how certain notions of wealth, class, sexual propriety, tradition and modernity form the essential fabric of middle class society in contemporary India.<br />
<br />
The play is set in Dharwad.<br />
<br />
English | 2 hrs | Age 16+<br />
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Written by <b>GIRISH KARNAD</b><br />
Directed & Produced by <b>SINDU SINGH</b><br />
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Performed by <a href="http://www.bayareadrama.company/upcoming">Bay Area Drama Company</a><br />
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<b>Showtimes</b><br />
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Saturday, May 06, 630 PM<br />
Sunday, May 07, 2 PM<br />
Friday, May 12, 8 PM<br />
Saturday, May 13, 2 PM<br />
Saturday, May 13, 6 PM<br />
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<b>Tickets</b><br />
<a href="http://www.bayareadrama.company/tickets">TICKETS</a><br />
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<b>Venue + Driving Directions</b><br />
<a href="https://www.google.com/maps/place/37%C2%B021'30.1%22N+122%C2%B001'29.8%22W/@37.3583684,-122.033708,15z/data=!4m2!3m1!1s0x0:0x0?hl=en">Sunnyvale Theatre - 550 East Remington Drive, Sunnyvale, CA 94087</a><br />
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<i>About the Bay Area Drama Company: Meaningful theatre. Mostly</i>.<br />
<br />
Theatre is art. Theatre is entertainment. Theatre can also have purpose. The theatre we choose to do is gripping and beautiful. Sometimes it is zany because we also like to have a good frolic. But it is always intelligent and thought provoking. It will leave you with something to take back after the curtain call. We stage pieces that are either original works by South Asian playwrights, or adapted to a South Asian context. Most of our plays are in English. So, even if you are not from the subcontinent, you can enjoy great theatre and learn about our culture.<br />
<br />
Our latest production is always on our <a href="http://www.bayareadrama.company/upcoming">Upcoming page</a>. To stay updated on our work, please sign up for our email list <a href="http://www.bayareadrama.company/join-us">here</a>. If you’d like to get involved as an artist or help out as part of the crew, please let us know <a href="http://www.bayareadrama.company/join-us">here</a>.<br />
<br />
Like us on <a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/Center-for-South-Asia-Studies/76502306608">FACEBOOK</a><br />
Follow us on <a href="https://twitter.com/ISASatBerkeley">TWITTER</a><br />
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<a href="http://southasia.berkeley.edu/parking-around-campus">PARKING INFORMATION</a><br />
<i>Please note that parking in not always easily available in Berkeley. Take public transportation if possible or arrive early to secure your spot.</i>http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/sseas.html?event_ID=108359&date=2017-05-13Sikh Monologues, May 13http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/sseas.html?event_ID=108629&date=2017-05-13
The Sikh Monologues is an ethnographic theater performance informed by Sikh stories across America. Jasleen Singh, the Director of Sikh Monologues, traveled across the U.S., interviewed 150 Sikhs and wrote monologues based on the interviews. The show explores issues from domestic abuse and immigration to Sikh identity and inclusivity. After productions in other California cities, New York, and Washington D.C., the show is coming to Berkeley, CA on May 13, 2017!<br />
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For more information, please visit the <a href="Facebook.com/SikhMonologues"> Facebook page</a>.<br />
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<a href="http://southasia.berkeley.edu/parking-around-campus">PARKING INFORMATION</a><br />
<i>Please note that parking is not always easily available in Berkeley. Take public transportation if possible or arrive early to secure your spot.</i>http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/sseas.html?event_ID=108629&date=2017-05-13Happy Hour, May 14http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/sseas.html?event_ID=108865&date=2017-05-14
Ryûsuke Hamaguchi's "Happy Hour" (2015) is a seemingly picturesque melodrama about four women living in Kobe who quietly drift apart. A noir despair, however, cracks through its bright surface - the film seems darkened by the shadow of the 3/11 Earthquake. Hamaguchi, a filmmaker and documentarian invested in exploring "a sense of dread as everyday life continues," has created a uniquely engaging 317-minute epic. It heralds a unique cinema of quiet apocalypse, one in which his heroes loom on the edge of an oblivion that is always coming. Or, has it already arrived?<br />
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"Happy Hour" has been praised as an arrival of a major film visionary. Unprecedentedly, all four of its main actors were awarded acting prizes at the Locarno International Film Festival in 2015 and it was recently screened at MOMA.<br />
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The filmmaker will join us for a Skype Q+A.http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/sseas.html?event_ID=108865&date=2017-05-14Summerfest, Jun 14http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/sseas.html?event_ID=109251&date=2017-06-14
The ever popular Summerfest will take place on Wednesday, June 14th. This year, there will be a variety of vendors dishing up delectable food as well as booths, talent, and entertainment (games, raffles, giveaways, etc). We also have awesome t-shirts for you (one per Staff member with ID, while supplies last).<br />
You must bring your Staff ID to the event - One t-shirt and one meal per Staff member with ID, while supplies last!http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/sseas.html?event_ID=109251&date=2017-06-14Lecture by Robert Del Bontà—Picturing Music: Ragamala Painting, Jul 8http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/sseas.html?event_ID=109494&date=2017-07-08
Many of the paintings in the exhibition Divine Visions, Earthly Pleasures illustrate poetry associated with an important genre of classical music of North India known as ragas, which relate to particular moods, seasons, and times of day. In his illustrated talk, guest curator Robert Del Bontà explores the fascinating subject of ragamala painting, which flourished at the Hindu and Muslim courts as early as the fifteenth century.<br />
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Del Bontà, an authority on Indian painting, curated the Divine Visions exhibition. From 1993 to 2000 he was research associate and guest curator at the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, where he has since curated several exhibitions. He has also organized or contributed to exhibitions at museums including the University of Michigan Museum of Art, the Rubin Museum of Art in New York, and BAMPFA.http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/sseas.html?event_ID=109494&date=2017-07-08Counter Offence, Jul 28http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/sseas.html?event_ID=108356&date=2017-07-28
When Shazia, the daughter of Indian immigrants, is hit by her Iranian husband Shapoor, he is arrested for domestic violence. Immediately after, things take an unexpected turn. A clever and conniving community activist lawyer, Moolchand Misra unexpectedly steps in and accuses the arresting officer, Alex Martin, who happens to be white, of racism and police brutality. Misra demands an inquiry thus turning a routine domestic violence case into a racially charged issue. The entire police department is up in arms about the inquiry and what they see as a calculated offence being mounted against them. Shapoor is deported and subsequently returns only to be found dead in a hotel room. There are suspects at every turn.<br />
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In this fascinating whodunnit, Rahul Varma poses questions which are more relevant than ever given the nationwide uproar around the police and their treatment of minorities and the current climate of mistrust.<br />
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This is the second play by Rahul Varma being staged by Bay Area Drama Company. The first one, <i>Bhopal</i>, premiered in December 2014 on the 30th anniversary of the world's worst industrial disaster.<br />
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English | 2 hrs | Age 16+<br />
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Written by <b>RAHUL VARMA</b><br />
Directed & Produced by <b>SINDU SINGH</b><br />
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Performed by <a href="http://www.bayareadrama.company/upcoming">Bay Area Drama Company</a><br />
<br />
<b>Showtimes</b><br />
<br />
Friday, July 28, 8 PM<br />
Saturday, August 5, 6 PM<br />
Sunday, August 6, 2 PM<br />
<br />
<b>Tickets</b><br />
<a href="http://www.bayareadrama.company/tickets">TICKETS</a><br />
<br />
<b>Venue + Driving Directions</b><br />
<a href="https://www.google.com/maps/place/37%C2%B021'30.1%22N+122%C2%B001'29.8%22W/@37.3583684,-122.033708,15z/data=!4m2!3m1!1s0x0:0x0?hl=en">Sunnyvale Theatre - 550 East Remington Drive, Sunnyvale, CA 94087</a><br />
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<i>About the Bay Area Drama Company: Meaningful theatre. Mostly</i>.<br />
<br />
Theatre is art. Theatre is entertainment. Theatre can also have purpose. The theatre we choose to do is gripping and beautiful. Sometimes it is zany because we also like to have a good frolic. But it is always intelligent and thought provoking. It will leave you with something to take back after the curtain call. We stage pieces that are either original works by South Asian playwrights, or adapted to a South Asian context. Most of our plays are in English. So, even if you are not from the subcontinent, you can enjoy great theatre and learn about our culture.<br />
<br />
Our latest production is always on our <a href="http://www.bayareadrama.company/upcoming">Upcoming page</a>. To stay updated on our work, please sign up for our email list <a href="http://www.bayareadrama.company/join-us">here</a>. If you’d like to get involved as an artist or help out as part of the crew, please let us know <a href="http://www.bayareadrama.company/join-us">here</a>.<br />
<br />
Like us on <a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/Center-for-South-Asia-Studies/76502306608">FACEBOOK</a><br />
Follow us on <a href="https://twitter.com/ISASatBerkeley">TWITTER</a><br />
<br />
<a href="http://southasia.berkeley.edu/parking-around-campus">PARKING INFORMATION</a><br />
<i>Please note that parking is not always easily available in Berkeley. Take public transportation if possible or arrive early to secure your spot.</i>http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/sseas.html?event_ID=108356&date=2017-07-28Counter Offence, Aug 5http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/sseas.html?event_ID=110103&date=2017-08-05
When Shazia, the daughter of Indian immigrants, is hit by her Iranian husband Shapoor, he is arrested for domestic violence. Immediately after, things take an unexpected turn. A clever and conniving community activist lawyer, Moolchand Misra unexpectedly steps in and accuses the arresting officer, Alex Martin, who happens to be white, of racism and police brutality. Misra demands an inquiry thus turning a routine domestic violence case into a racially charged issue. The entire police department is up in arms about the inquiry and what they see as a calculated offence being mounted against them. Shapoor is deported and subsequently returns only to be found dead in a hotel room. There are suspects at every turn.<br />
<br />
In this fascinating whodunnit, Rahul Varma poses questions which are more relevant than ever given the nationwide uproar around the police and their treatment of minorities and the current climate of mistrust.<br />
<br />
This is the second play by Rahul Varma being staged by Bay Area Drama Company. The first one, <i>Bhopal</i>, premiered in December 2014 on the 30th anniversary of the world's worst industrial disaster.<br />
<br />
English | 2 hrs | Age 16+<br />
<br />
Written by <b>RAHUL VARMA</b><br />
Directed & Produced by <b>SINDU SINGH</b><br />
<br />
Performed by <a href="http://www.bayareadrama.company/upcoming">Bay Area Drama Company</a><br />
<br />
<b>Showtimes</b><br />
<br />
Friday, July 28, 8 PM<br />
Saturday, August 5, 6 PM<br />
Sunday, August 6, 2 PM<br />
<br />
<b>Tickets</b><br />
<a href="http://www.bayareadrama.company/tickets">TICKETS</a><br />
<br />
<b>Venue + Driving Directions</b><br />
<a href="https://www.google.com/maps/place/37%C2%B021'30.1%22N+122%C2%B001'29.8%22W/@37.3583684,-122.033708,15z/data=!4m2!3m1!1s0x0:0x0?hl=en">Sunnyvale Theatre - 550 East Remington Drive, Sunnyvale, CA 94087</a><br />
<br />
<i>About the Bay Area Drama Company: Meaningful theatre. Mostly</i>.<br />
<br />
Theatre is art. Theatre is entertainment. Theatre can also have purpose. The theatre we choose to do is gripping and beautiful. Sometimes it is zany because we also like to have a good frolic. But it is always intelligent and thought provoking. It will leave you with something to take back after the curtain call. We stage pieces that are either original works by South Asian playwrights, or adapted to a South Asian context. Most of our plays are in English. So, even if you are not from the subcontinent, you can enjoy great theatre and learn about our culture.<br />
<br />
Our latest production is always on our <a href="http://www.bayareadrama.company/upcoming">Upcoming page</a>. To stay updated on our work, please sign up for our email list <a href="http://www.bayareadrama.company/join-us">here</a>. If you’d like to get involved as an artist or help out as part of the crew, please let us know <a href="http://www.bayareadrama.company/join-us">here</a>.<br />
<br />
Like us on <a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/Center-for-South-Asia-Studies/76502306608">FACEBOOK</a><br />
Follow us on <a href="https://twitter.com/ISASatBerkeley">TWITTER</a><br />
<br />
<a href="http://southasia.berkeley.edu/parking-around-campus">PARKING INFORMATION</a><br />
<i>Please note that parking is not always easily available in Berkeley. Take public transportation if possible or arrive early to secure your spot.</i>http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/sseas.html?event_ID=110103&date=2017-08-05Counter Offence, Aug 6http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/sseas.html?event_ID=110104&date=2017-08-06
When Shazia, the daughter of Indian immigrants, is hit by her Iranian husband Shapoor, he is arrested for domestic violence. Immediately after, things take an unexpected turn. A clever and conniving community activist lawyer, Moolchand Misra unexpectedly steps in and accuses the arresting officer, Alex Martin, who happens to be white, of racism and police brutality. Misra demands an inquiry thus turning a routine domestic violence case into a racially charged issue. The entire police department is up in arms about the inquiry and what they see as a calculated offence being mounted against them. Shapoor is deported and subsequently returns only to be found dead in a hotel room. There are suspects at every turn.<br />
<br />
In this fascinating whodunnit, Rahul Varma poses questions which are more relevant than ever given the nationwide uproar around the police and their treatment of minorities and the current climate of mistrust.<br />
<br />
This is the second play by Rahul Varma being staged by Bay Area Drama Company. The first one, <i>Bhopal</i>, premiered in December 2014 on the 30th anniversary of the world's worst industrial disaster.<br />
<br />
English | 2 hrs | Age 16+<br />
<br />
Written by <b>RAHUL VARMA</b><br />
Directed & Produced by <b>SINDU SINGH</b><br />
<br />
Performed by <a href="http://www.bayareadrama.company/upcoming">Bay Area Drama Company</a><br />
<br />
<b>Showtimes</b><br />
<br />
Friday, July 28, 8 PM<br />
Saturday, August 5, 6 PM<br />
Sunday, August 6, 2 PM<br />
<br />
<b>Tickets</b><br />
<a href="http://www.bayareadrama.company/tickets">TICKETS</a><br />
<br />
<b>Venue + Driving Directions</b><br />
<a href="https://www.google.com/maps/place/37%C2%B021'30.1%22N+122%C2%B001'29.8%22W/@37.3583684,-122.033708,15z/data=!4m2!3m1!1s0x0:0x0?hl=en">Sunnyvale Theatre - 550 East Remington Drive, Sunnyvale, CA 94087</a><br />
<br />
<i>About the Bay Area Drama Company: Meaningful theatre. Mostly</i>.<br />
<br />
Theatre is art. Theatre is entertainment. Theatre can also have purpose. The theatre we choose to do is gripping and beautiful. Sometimes it is zany because we also like to have a good frolic. But it is always intelligent and thought provoking. It will leave you with something to take back after the curtain call. We stage pieces that are either original works by South Asian playwrights, or adapted to a South Asian context. Most of our plays are in English. So, even if you are not from the subcontinent, you can enjoy great theatre and learn about our culture.<br />
<br />
Our latest production is always on our <a href="http://www.bayareadrama.company/upcoming">Upcoming page</a>. To stay updated on our work, please sign up for our email list <a href="http://www.bayareadrama.company/join-us">here</a>. If you’d like to get involved as an artist or help out as part of the crew, please let us know <a href="http://www.bayareadrama.company/join-us">here</a>.<br />
<br />
Like us on <a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/Center-for-South-Asia-Studies/76502306608">FACEBOOK</a><br />
Follow us on <a href="https://twitter.com/ISASatBerkeley">TWITTER</a><br />
<br />
<a href="http://southasia.berkeley.edu/parking-around-campus">PARKING INFORMATION</a><br />
<i>Please note that parking is not always easily available in Berkeley. Take public transportation if possible or arrive early to secure your spot.</i>http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/sseas.html?event_ID=110104&date=2017-08-06Global Urban Humanities Open House + Book Fair, Aug 24http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/sseas.html?event_ID=109655&date=2017-08-24
The interdisciplinary Global Urban Humanities Initiative (GUH) studies global cities by bringing together scholars, artists and designers from the arts and humanities, architecture, landscape architecture, and city planning.<br />
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Come celebrate the start of the fifth year of our activities, including the launch of our new undergraduate program. Learn about an exciting international traveling studio on U.S.-Mexico borderlands, an undergraduate studio on art and performance at a landfill, and a seminar on populism art and the city. We'll also introduce our new Graduate and Undergraduate Certificates in Global Urban Humanities and our fall speaker series.<br />
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The Open House will also feature a book fair with works authored or edited by GUH faculty. University Press Books will be on hand for book purchases.<br />
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We'll be hosting this Global Urban Humanities Initiative Open House and Book Fair in the historic Morrison Library. It will be a great chance to meet GUH faculty and students.<br />
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This event is open to the entire campus and public with RSVP. Registration link can be found here: http://globalurbanhumanities.berkeley.edu/events/guh-open-house<br />
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Light refreshments will be provided.<br />
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For questions, please contact GUH Program Coordinator Tina Novero at tinanovero@berkeley.eduhttp://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/sseas.html?event_ID=109655&date=2017-08-24Global Urban Humanities Info Sessions, Sep 1http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/sseas.html?event_ID=109656&date=2017-09-01
The interdisciplinary Global Urban Humanities Initiative (GUH) studies global cities by bringing together scholars, artists and designers from the arts and humanities, architecture, landscape architecture, and city planning.<br />
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10AM-11AM Info Session for Graduate Students<br />
Learn about the nuts and bolts of our new certificate program for graduate students, new courses, fellowship opportunities, and student publication grants. <br />
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11AM-12PM Info Session for Undergraduate Students<br />
Learn about the new certificate program for undergraduate students, new courses, and student publication grants.<br />
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Please RSVP by contacting Tina Novero at globalurbanhumanities@berkeley.edu.http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/sseas.html?event_ID=109656&date=2017-09-01Annual Reception, Sep 6http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/sseas.html?event_ID=109200&date=2017-09-06
Please join us for our Annual Reception and Open House! Come meet our staff and find out about our upcoming events.<br />
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Like us on <a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/Center-for-South-Asia-Studies/76502306608">FACEBOOK</a><br />
Follow us on <a href="https://twitter.com/ISASatBerkeley">TWITTER</a><br />
<br />
<a href="http://southasia.berkeley.edu/parking-around-campus">PARKING INFORMATION</a><br />
<i>Please note that parking is not always easily available in Berkeley. Take public transportation if possible or arrive early to secure your spot.</i>http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/sseas.html?event_ID=109200&date=2017-09-06Lunch Poems, Sep 7http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/sseas.html?event_ID=110558&date=2017-09-07
Hosted by Geoffrey G. O’Brien, this event features distinguished faculty and staff from a wide range of disciplines introducing and reading a favorite poem. This year’s participants:<br />
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Associate Director Adam A. Hillier (Undergraduate Admissions), Khalid Kadir (International and Area Studies), Marco Lindsey (Haas School of Business), Kathy Mendonca (Human Resources), Claudia Polsky (Law), Sidalia Reel (Staff Diversity Initiative), Elizabeth Wilcox (Human Resources), and Tarek Zohdi (Mechanical Engineering).http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/sseas.html?event_ID=110558&date=2017-09-07Ejaz Hussain | Neither Transition nor Transformation, Sep 7http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/sseas.html?event_ID=110101&date=2017-09-07
ISAS and <a href="http://southasia.berkeley.edu/berkeley-pakistan-initiative">Pakistan@Berkeley</a>-- a campaign to broaden and deepen Pakistan related research, teaching and programming at UC Berkeley, invite you for a talk by Dr. Ejaz Hussain, Pakistani expert on domestic politics, foreign policy and civil-military relations<br />
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What is the nature and character of civil-military relations in contemporary Pakistan? Is Pakistan going through democratic transition, as the media and certain scholarship portray, or experiencing structural transformation within the state (institutions)? What do the contours and consequences of contemporary civil-military relations inform us about the degree of democracy and the level of political and socioeconomic development in current context and the foreseeable future? These questions are central to the talk which takes a theory-guided view of the recent empirical developments with respect to the emerging patterns of interaction among civilian and the military, the issues related to civilian control of the military, the dynamics of democratization and, above all, the hybridization of civil-military relations. In order to measure democratization, understand domestic- in particular the country’s counterterrorism strategy- and foreign policy of the present (civil) government in Pakistan, it becomes pertinent to explain the intricacies of civil-military relations, for the latter has not only remained at the center of politics, democracy and security throughout the country’s history but also carries potential to provide, on the one hand, with conceptual tools to explain motives and motivation behind crisis and coup and, on the other, empirical insights for policy formulation.<br />
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<b>Ejaz Hussain </b> holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from Heidelberg University (2010). Before this, he did an M.A. in International Relations from Quaid-i- Azam University (2003) and another M.A. in Asian Studies from Lund University, Sweden (2006). Ejaz authored <i>Military Agency, Politics and the State in Pakistan</i> (2013) besides having published on Pakistan’s domestic politics, foreign policy and civil-military relations in peer-reviewed journals. His media commentaries have appeared in the BBC, Dawn, Express Tribune, The First Post, Newsline, The Friday Times, Global Times and Daily Times. Moreover, Hussain is DAAD and Fulbright Fellow and currently is a visiting scholar at the Institute of International Studies, UC Berkeley. Previously, he worked at COMSATS, Islamabad, and Forman Christian College, Lahore. Presently, he chairs the Department of Social Sciences at Iqra University, Islamabad.<br />
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This event is presented under the aegis of the <a href="http://southasia.berkeley.edu/berkeley-pakistan-initiative">Berkeley Pakistan Initiative</a> <br />
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Like us on <a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/Center-for-South-Asia-Studies/76502306608">FACEBOOK</a><br />
Follow us on <a href="https://twitter.com/ISASatBerkeley">TWITTER</a><br />
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<a href="http://southasia.berkeley.edu/parking-around-campus">PARKING INFORMATION</a><br />
<i>Please note that parking is not always easily available in Berkeley. Take public transportation if possible or arrive early to secure your spot.</i>http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/sseas.html?event_ID=110101&date=2017-09-07How to Write a Research Grant Proposal, Sep 11http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/sseas.html?event_ID=110094&date=2017-09-11
Writing proposals for funding for research or other projects has become increasingly essential for scholars, students, administrators, artists, and non-profits. The basic requirements of a research proposal are the same, with modest variations, across disciplines, fields, and foundations. This full-day workshop will address how to develop the key components of a research proposal regardless of the format or funding agency. How do you move from the “maximal” proposal to a “targeted” proposal? How do you research funding agencies? Revise and resubmit? Negotiate terms? The workshop will address these questions and more. <br />
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Schedule:<br />
8:30 - 9:00 am: Registration and Coffee<br />
9:00 am - 1:00 pm: Interactive Lectures (capacity: 95 attendees)<br />
1:00 - 2:00 pm: Light lunch will be served<br />
2:00 - 5:00 pm: Workshopping Abstracts (capacity: 25 attendees)http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/sseas.html?event_ID=110094&date=2017-09-11India At 70: Reflections On The Path Forward, Sep 11http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/sseas.html?event_ID=110537&date=2017-09-11
Rahul Gandhi has led the reorganization of India’s Congress Party since becoming Vice President of the party in 2013. At UC Berkeley, he will offer his reflections on contemporary India and the path forward for the world’s largest democracy. He follows in the footsteps of his great grandfather Jawaharlal Nehru, India’s first prime minister, who delivered a historic speech at Berkeley in 1949.http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/sseas.html?event_ID=110537&date=2017-09-11AIA Lecture - Beads, trade, and the emergence of complexity in ancient Southeast Asia, Sep 12http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/sseas.html?event_ID=108977&date=2017-09-12
Around 500 BC people in South Asia (primarily India and Sri Lanka) began interacting with people in Southeast Asia. Some of the earliest indicators of this contact are stone and glass beads that were imported from South Asia and widely traded across Southeast Asia. These beads were important symbols of prestige and power. In this presentation I discuss my study of beads from 12 archaeological sites in Cambodia and Thailand and what we can learn from these beads about early trade networks, how beads were being exchanged, and who may have been trading and wearing beads.http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/sseas.html?event_ID=108977&date=2017-09-12An Evening with Mallika Sarabhai - Dance to Change the World, Sep 15http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/sseas.html?event_ID=110256&date=2017-09-15
ISAS is proud to announce the 6th <a href="http://southasia.berkeley.edu/sarah-kailath-chair-memorial-lecture"><b>Sarah Kailath Memorial Lecture</b></a> - a lecture series on the theme of Women and Leadership. This lecture series has been established in memory of Sarah Kailath (February 5, 1941 - October 15, 2008), a long-time supporter of ISAS’s mission and activities and in whose name the Institute holds an endowed chair titled the <a href="http://southasia.berkeley.edu/sarah-kailath-chair-memorial-lecture"><b>Sarah Kailath Chair in India Studies</b></a>.<br />
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Our sixth Sarah Kailath Memorial lecturer will be acclaimed activist and Indian classical dancer <a href="http://www.mallikasarabhai.com/about.html"><b>Mallika Sarabhai</b></a>. <br />
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<a href="http://www.mallikasarabhai.com/about.html"><b>Mallika Sarabhai</b></a> is one of India’s leading choreographers and dancers, in constant demand as a soloist and with her own dance company, Darpana, creating and performing both classical and contemporary works. She has a PhD in organisational behaviour and has been the co-director of the prestigious arts institution, Darpana Academy of Performing Arts, for nearly 30 years. <br />
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Mallika first made a name for herself in India as a film actress but soon was recognised as an exceptional young dancer in the classical forms of Bharata Natyam and Kuchipudi. At 18, she won the first of many awards. <br />
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She first came to international notice when she played the role of Draupadi in Peter Brook’s The Mahabharata for 5 years, first in French and then English, performing in France, North America, Australia, Japan and Scotland <br />
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Always an activist for societal education and women’s empowerment, Mallika began using her work for change. In 1989 she created the first of her hard-hitting solo theatrical works, Shakti: The Power of Women. Since then Mallika has created numerous stage productions which have raised awareness, highlighted crucial issues and advocated change, several of which productions have toured internationally as well as throughout India. <br />
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In the mid 90s Mallika began to develop her own contemporary dance vocabulary and went on to create short and full-length works which have been presented in North America, Scotland, Singapore, China and Australia, as well as in India. <br />
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The <a href="http://southasia.berkeley.edu/sarah-kailath-chair-memorial-lecture"><b>Sarah Kailath Memorial Lecture on "Women and Leadership,"</b></a> derives from the <a href="http://southasia.berkeley.edu/sarah-kailath-chair-memorial-lecture"><b>Sarah Kailath Chair in India Studies</b></a>. The chair was established by Thomas Kailath, and Vinita and Narendra Gupta in honor of Dr. Kailath's wife, Sarah Kailath, to enhance awareness and knowledge of issues relating to the Indian subcontinent. The current Sarah Kailath Chair is <a href="http://southasia.berkeley.edu/lawrence-cohen-0"><b>Lawrence Cohen</b></a>, Chair, Institute for South Asia Studies and Professor, Anthropology and South Asian Studies. Professors Raka Ray, Robert P. Goldman and Thomas Metcalf previously held the Chair.<br />
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This conference explores the philosophies, texts, arts, and practices of Mongolian Buddhism. A keynote session will be held Thursday afternoon, September 28, followed by full day sessions on September 29 and 30.<br />
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Among the scheduled speakers are:<br />
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Agata BAREJA-STARZYNSKA, University of Warsaw<br />
Brian BAUMANN, UC Berkeley<br />
Isabelle CHARLEUX, National Centre for Scientific Research<br />
Jacob DALTON, UC Berkeley<br />
Johan ELVERSKOG, Southern Methodist University<br />
Caroline HUMPHREY, King’s College, Cambridge<br />
Matthew KING, UC Riverside<br />
Erdenebaatar OCHIR, UC Santa Barbara<br />
Weirong SHEN, Renmin University of China<br />
Uranchimeg TSULTEM, UC Berkeley<br />
Vesna WALLACE, UC Santa Barbarahttp://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/sseas.html?event_ID=109252&date=2017-09-28Buddhist Revelations in Mongolian Contemporary Art: Artist Soyolmaa Davaakhuu in Conversation with Uranchimeg Tsultem, Sep 28http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/sseas.html?event_ID=109357&date=2017-09-28
Mongolian artist Soyolmaa Davaakhuu will discuss her work with art historian Uranchimeg Tsultem. Soyolmaa Davaakhuu's art is based on her profound interest and practice of Buddhism. She is one of very few artists in Mongolia who aim to find new modernist style of expression of Buddhist images, motifs and symbols. She studied Buddhism and with the approval of her guru, she is able to create new forms and iconographies for Buddhist deities and their manifestations. Works by the artist will be on display. Her art was shown in UK, USA, Canada, South Korea, Vietnam, and Mongolia. The exhibition opening will include the artist's talk.http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/sseas.html?event_ID=109357&date=2017-09-28Samira Sheikh | Aurangzeb, Sep 28http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/sseas.html?event_ID=110530&date=2017-09-28
Ever since an early stint as governor of Gujarat and throughout his long career, Aurangzeb kept a close watch on Gujarat’s politics. Its Muslim minority groups, especially those who demonstrated Shi`i tendencies, were scrutinized with particular attention. Did his anti-Shi`a position arise out of primordial Sunni antipathy or were there “political reasons” for his initiatives? Some clues may lie in the histories of his closest advisers as well as in the hagiographies and devotional literatures of religious groups from seventeenth century. This paper will revisit the revisionist take on Aurangzeb by viewing the Mughal empire from its edges. <br />
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Samira Sheikh is a historian of South Asia. Her research interests include politics and religion in South Asia from 1200-1950, early modern trade, and early Indian maps. She is the author of Forging a Region: Sultans, Traders and Pilgrims in Gujarat, 1200-1500 (Oxford India, 2010), and co-editor of After Timur Left (Oxford University Press, 2014), and An Anthology of Ismaili Literature: A Shi'i Vision of Islam (I.B. Tauris and the Institute of Ismaili Studies, 2008).<br />
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Dr. Sheikh has an undergraduate degree in history from Maharaja Sayajirao University, in Baroda, India, and MA and MPhil degrees from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. After doctoral research at Oxford, she held a Junior Research Fellowship at Wolfson College, Oxford, until 2006. She came to Vanderbilt from London where she was a research associate at the Institute of Ismaili Studies. She was awarded the Ryskamp Fellowship by the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) for the 2012-13 academic year. She is currently working on a book on an eighteenth century Gujarati entrepreneur-politician.<br />
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Sarah Nelson Wright’s work, part of the Hearst’s exhibit People Made These Things, addresses the crucial question: who are the makers of mass-produced objects in our lives today? In this talk, Wright will share stories and media from a research trip to India and Sri Lanka to observe garment factories and meet marginalized workers. She will discuss a work-in-progress, Invisible Seams, an augmented reality sound walk about the globalization of the fashion industry. This project uses smartphone technology to bring the stories of the sweatshop workers who make our clothes to the streets of the shopping epicenter of SoHo in New York City. The talk will address digital storytelling, emerging technology, advocacy and place-making, in addition to focusing on the question of what it means to know who made the objects in our everyday lives.<br />
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Sarah Nelson Wright is a Brooklyn- and Bay Area-based media artist and educator. Her work encompasses video, installation, interactive media and public art. Wright’s projects have been exhibited internationally in galleries and festivals, including the Queens Museum (New York), Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts (New York), Mostra de Artes (Sao Paulo, Brazil) and ACVic Center for Contemporary Arts (Vic, Spain). Wright holds a BA in American Studies from Yale and an MFA in Integrated Media Arts from Hunter College. She is an Assistant Professor of Digital Media at Marymount Manhattan College.<br />
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Free with museum admission.http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/sseas.html?event_ID=110240&date=2017-09-28Chinese Overseas, Oct 5http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/sseas.html?event_ID=105267&date=2017-10-05
This symposium celebrates the intellectual contributions of UC Berkeley’s research on Chinese communities overseas, including its archival collections from around the world. UC Berkeley created one of the first Chinese American studies programs in North America and holds one of the world’s largest Chinese American archives.http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/sseas.html?event_ID=105267&date=2017-10-05Lunch Poems, Oct 5http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/sseas.html?event_ID=110559&date=2017-10-05
Layli Long Soldier received a 2015 Lannan Fellowship for Poetry, a 2015 National Artist Fellowship from the Native Arts and Cultures Foundation, and a 2016 Whiting Writers' Award. She is the author of Chromosomory and WHEREAS and has served as contributing editor of Drunken Boat. “I am,” she writes, “a citizen of the United States and an enrolled member of the Oglala Sioux Tribe, meaning I am a citizen of the Oglala Lakota Nation—and in this dual citizenship I must work, I must eat, I must art, I must mother, I must friend, I must listen, I must observe, constantly I must live.” She teaches at Diné College and lives in Santa Fe, NM.http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/sseas.html?event_ID=110559&date=2017-10-05Cinephiles, Fandoms, and Global Media Cultures, Oct 6http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/sseas.html?event_ID=109037&date=2017-10-06
This roundtable addresses the transcultural nature of Indian cinema, both past and present. Following the liberalization of India’s economy in the early 1990s, histories of Indian cinema have either focused on the reception of Indian films vis-a-vis cosmopolitan constructions of South Asian diasporic subjectivities or have examined the ways in which an image of the nation has been constructed in and through Indian cinema. What is less understood and explored is the integration, consumption, and vernacularization of Indian cinema in various contexts outside India, for instance in Latin America and Africa.<br />
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Cinephiles, Fandoms, and Global Media Cultures aims to highlight recent engagements with transcultural Indian cinema by scholars based in the Bay Area. Lalitha Gopalan, Associate Professor of Radio, Television, and Film at the University of Texas at Austin, will give the keynote address.<br />
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This event will be held in conjunction with the opening reception of the exhibition “Love Across the Global South: Popular Cinema Cultures of India and Senegal" in the Bernice Layne Brown Gallery, Doe Library. The exhibition highlights the interconnected nature of Senegalese Indian cinema fan culture and the Indian films that inspire it.<br />
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Both the roundtable and exhibition reception will be free and open to the public. The roundtable is co-sponsored by the Townsend Center of Humanities and the Institute of South Asia Studies.<br />
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Event made possible with the support of the <a href="http://southasia.berkeley.edu/sarah-kailath-chair-memorial-lecture">Sarah Kailath Chair of India Studies</a><br />
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Murzban F. Shroff, Author of Breathless in Bombay (stories) and Waiting for Jonathan Koshy (novel) shares his experiences of writing under threat.<br />
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Murzban F. Shroff is a Mumbai-based writer. He spent 16 years in advertising, at multinational advertising agencies like Ogilvy & Mather, McCann Erickson, and Grey, where he helped build some of the country’s most reputed brands. After that, Shroff started his own creative consultancy, which grew so fast that he felt he was turning into some kind of an unnatural growth machine. He, therefore, returned to his first love – writing - and worked on the nuts and bolts of it for six years.<br />
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In 2008, Shroff published his first book, a collection of short stories, <i>Breathless in Bombay</i>, with St. Martin’s Press, U.S, and Picador India. The book was shortlisted for the 2009 Commonwealth Writers’ Prize in the best debut category from Europe and South Asia and rated by the Guardian as among the ten best Mumbai books.<br />
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In December 2015, Shroff published his novel, <i>Waiting For Jonathan Koshy</i>, the second part in his Mumbai trilogy. The novel was a finalist for the Horatio Nelson Fiction Prize and earned high praise from two renowned American authors: the Pulitzer Prize-winner Robert Olen Butler and the National Book Award Finalist Madison Smartt Bell.<br />
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To date, Shroff has published his fiction with over sixty literary journals in the USA and the UK, including the <i>Gettysburg Review, Triquarterly, the Minnesota Review, the South Carolina Review, Southwest Review, and World Literature Today</i>. His fiction has also appeared in publications such as the <i>Saturday Evening Post</i> and <i>Chicago Tribune</i>. His non-fiction has appeared in <i>India Abroad</i> and the <i>American Scholar</i>. In the UK, his stories have appeared in <i>Aesthetica, Cadenza, Short Fiction, Stand, and Structo</i>. Shroff is the recipient of the John Gilgun Fiction Award and has garnered six Pushcart Prize nominations, the highest award for the short story in the USA.<br />
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He has represented Mumbai at the London Short Story Festival and was invited to speak about his work at UCLA, California State University Monterey Bay, Eastwind Books of Berkeley, and the Gandhi Memorial Center in Bethesda, U.S.<br />
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The Institute for South Asia Studies (ISAS) at UC Berkeley in collaboration with the Vedanta Society Berkeley (VSB) are proud to launch a new lecture series on religion in the modern world. Titled the ISAS-VSB Lectures on Religion in the Modern World, this series seeks to invite distinguished scholars of world religions to campus with the aim of improving and diversifying conversations about the role of religion in modern societies.<br />
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Our first lecture in this series will be delivered by Prof. Robert A. F. Thurman, a recognized worldwide authority on religion and spirituality, Asian history, world philosophy, Buddhist science, Indo-Tibetan Buddhism, and H.H. Dalai Lama. <br />
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Robert A.F. Thurman is the Jey Tsong Khapa Professor of Indo-Tibetan Buddhist Studies in the Department of Religion at Columbia University, President of the Tibet House U.S., a non-profit organization dedicated to the preservation and promotion of Tibetan civilization, and President of the American Institute of Buddhist Studies, a non-profit affiliated with the Center for Buddhist Studies at Columbia University and dedicated to the publication of translations of important artistic and scientific treatises from the Tibetan Tengyur.<br />
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Time chose Professor Thurman as one of its 25 most influential Americans in 1997, describing him as a “larger than life scholar-activist destined to convey the Dharma, the precious teachings of Shakyamuni Buddha, from Asia to America.” The New York Times recently said Thurman “is considered the leading American expert on Tibetan Buddhism.”<br />
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Thurman is known as a talented popularizer of the Buddha’s teachings. He is a riveting speaker and an author of many books on Tibet, Buddhism, art, politics and culture, including The Central Philosophy of Tibet, Circling the Sacred Mountain, Essential Tibetan Buddhism, The Tibetan Book of the Dead, Wisdom and Compassion: The Sacred Art of Tibet, Worlds of Transformation, Inner Revolution, Infinite Life, the Jewel Tree of Tibet, Why The Dalai Lama Matters: His Act of Truth as the Solution for China, Tibet, and the World, and, most recently, with Sharon Salzberg, Love Your Enemies.<br />
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His own search for enlightenment began while he was a student at Harvard. After an accident in which he lost the use of an eye, Thurman left school on a spiritual quest throughout Europe, the Middle East and Asia. He found his way to India, where he first saw H.H. the Dalai Lama in 1962. After learning Tibetan and studying Buddhism he decided to become a Tibetan Buddhist monk and was the first Westerner to be ordained by the Dalai Lama. However, some years later, he offered up his robes when “he discovered he could be more effective in the American equivalent of the monastery: the university”. He returned to Harvard to finish his PhD. A very popular professor, students call his classes “life-changing”.<br />
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As part of his long-term commitment to the Tibetan cause, at the request of H.H. the Dalai Lama, Thurman co-founded Tibet House US in 1987 with Tenzin Tethong, Richard Gere, and Philip Glass. Since then Uma Thurman, Melissa Mathison Ford, Natalie Merchant, Leila Hadley Luce and many others served on the board. Tibet House US is a non profit organization in New York City dedicated to the preservation and renaissance of Tibetan civilization. It maintains a lively museum and cultural center, and offers programs in all aspects of the Tibetan arts and sciences. It recently founded the Menla Mountain Retreat Center in the Catskill Mountains to advance the healing arts and wisdom of Tibetan and Asian medicine traditions and offer their resources to the growing demand for alternative and complementary health practices.<br />
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Inspired by his good friend the Dalai Lama, Thurman stands on Buddhism’s open reality, and thence takes us along with him into an expanded vision of the world, whether the sweep of history, the subtleties of the inner science of the psyche, or the wonders of the life of the heart. He always shares the sense of refuge in the Dharma, which unfailingly helps us clear away the shrouds of fear and confusion, sustains us with the cheerfulness of an enriched present, and opens a door to a path of realistic hope for a peaceful future.<br />
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Event made possible with the support of the <a href="http://southasia.berkeley.edu/sarah-kailath-chair-memorial-lecture">Sarah Kailath Chair of India Studies</a><br />
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ISAS and <a href="http://southasia.berkeley.edu/berkeley-pakistan-initiative">Pakistan@Berkeley</a>, a campaign to broaden and deepen Pakistan related research, teaching and programming at UC Berkeley, are proud to announce the fifth "<a href="http://southasia.berkeley.edu/mahomedali-habib-lecture-series">Mahomedali Habib Distinguished Lecture on Pakistan</a>" by famed historian of South Asia, Prof. David Gilmartin. <br />
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David Gilmartin is Professor of History at North Carolina State University. His research interest focus on the intersections between the history of British imperialism in South Asia and the development of modern politics and forms of rule. His most recent book, Blood and Water: The Indus River Basin in Modern History (2015) examines the intersection between environmental and political history over the last 200 years. His current research focuses on the legal history of India's electoral institutions as they have evolved from its colonial past, and on the ways these institutions have reflected evolving visions of sovereignty.<br />
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Additional publications by Prof. Gilmartin include <i>Civilization and Modernity: Narrating the Creation of Pakistan</i> (New Delhi: Yoda Press, 2014); <i>Muslim Voices: Community and the Self in South Asia</i>, co-edited with Usha Sanyal and Sandria Freitag (New Delhi: Yoda Press, 2013); <i>Expanding Frontiers in South Asian and World History: Essays in Honor of John F. Richards</i>, co-edited with Richard M. Eaton, Munis D. Faruqui, and Sunil Kumar (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2013); <i>Beyond Turk and Hindu: Rethinking Religious Identities in Islamicate South Asia</i>, co-edited with Bruce Lawrence (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2000); and <i>Empire and Islam: Punjab and the Making of Pakistan </i>(Berkeley: University of California Press, 1988; London: I. B. Tauris, 1988; Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1988)<br />
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Prof. Gilmartin received his BA from the University of Michigan and his Ph.D. in History from the University of California--Berkeley. <br />
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The <a href="http://southasia.berkeley.edu/mahomedali-habib-lecture-series">Mahomedali Habib Distinguished Lecture </a>on Pakistan is named in honor of one of the leading figures in the history of the Habib family. In addition to successfully guiding the Habib family’s transition from India to Pakistan following independence in 1947, Mahomedali Habib laid the foundations for the House of Habib, a group of powerful business and financial companies. The group has a long-standing history of philanthropy and social service and is currently leading the establishment of Habib University, a liberal arts and sciences university, in Pakistan which aims to bridge the gap between global academia and Pakistan. Toward honoring the legacy of Mahomedali Habib – who was distinguished by his love for Pakistan and his deep commitment to education and philanthropy – the Habib family has decided to endow an annual lecture series in his name. Through this lecture series the Habib family aims to improve and diversify conversations about Pakistan in the United States as well as create opportunities for US and Pakistan-based scholars to dialogue.<br />
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This event is presented under the aegis of the <a href="http://southasia.berkeley.edu/berkeley-pakistan-initiative">Berkeley Pakistan Initiative</a> <br />
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Ornit Shani is a scholar of the politics and modern history of India.<br />
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Ornit received her PhD from the University of Cambridge. She was a Research Fellow at St. John’s College, Cambridge University. Her current research focuses on the modern history of democracy and citizenship in India.<br />
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Her forthcoming book is <i>How India Became Democratic: Citizenship and the Making of the Universal Franchise</i>, Cambridge University Press (forthcoming). This book uncovers the greatest experiment in democratic history: the creation of the electoral roll and universal adult franchise in India.<br />
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Ornit holds an Israeli Science Foundation (ISF) grant for her sequel project: ‘Embedding Democracy: the Social History of India’s First Elections’. Her other areas of research are the rise of Hindu Nationalism, identity and caste politics, communal and caste violence. She is the author of <i>Communalism, Caste, and Hindu Nationalism: The Violence in Gujarat</i> (Cambridge University Press, 2007).<br />
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We are privileged to have Dr. Nandini Sundar, professor of sociology, Delhi University, winner of the Infosys Prize for Social Sciences in 2010, and who has been writing about Bastar and its people for 26 years, in residence as the Indo-American Community Lecturer at the Institute for South Asia Studies in November 2017. <br />
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Nandini Sundar is a professor of sociology at the Delhi School of Economics whose research interests include political sociology, law, and inequality. Professor Sundar is a recipient of the Infosys Prize for Social Sciences in 2010, for which the citation reads: <i>Professor Nandini Sundar is an outstanding social anthropologist of South Asia, who has made major and original contributions to our understanding of environmental struggles, of the impact of central and state policies on tribal politics, and of the moral ambiguities associated with subaltern political movements in contemporary India. These contributions are anchored in her deep grasp of the legacies of colonial rule for cultural politics in contemporary India, and in theoretically innovative understanding of the relationship of major historical events to persistent structural tensions in Indian society. Professor Sundar has placed her detailed studies of tribal politics in Central India in the broader frame of studies of the law, bureaucracy and morality in modern India. In so doing, she has combined innovative empirical and ethnographic methods and cutting-edge approaches to those sociological debates which link the study of social change in modern India to central debates in comparative social theory</i> <br />
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Professor Nandini Sundar obtained a Bachelor of Arts degree in Philosophy, Politics and Economics from Oxford University in 1989 and Master of Arts, Master of Philosophy and Ph.D. degrees in Anthropology from Columbia University in 1989, 1991 and 1995 respectively.<br />
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Professor Sundar is the co-editor of India's flagship sociology journal 'Contributions to Indian Sociology' along with Professor Amita Baviskar. She is associated with several governing boards of academic journals, government committees and non-governmental organizations in various capacities and working on issues related to the environment, tribal rights and discrimination/exclusion.<br />
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She is currently a Professor in the Department of Sociology at the Delhi School of Economics. She has held visiting positions at Punjab, Yale, Michigan, Cambridge and Chandigarh universities. She was awarded the M. N. Srinivas Memorial Prize of the Indian Sociological Society in 2002-03, the L. M. Singhvi Visiting Fellowship at Cambridge in 2003, the Hughes Visiting Fellowship at Michigan in 2005, and the Ester Boserup Prize for Development Research in 2016.<br />
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Her publications include <i>The Burning Forest: India's War in Bastar</i> (Juggernaut Press, 2016), <i>The Scheduled Tribes and their India</i> (edited volume, OUP, 2016), <i>Civil Wars in South Asia: State, Sovereignty, Development </i>(Sage 2014, co-edited), <i>Subalterns and Sovereigns: An Anthropological History of Bastar</i> (2nd ed 2007, 1997), <i>Branching Out: Joint Forest Management in India</i> (co-authored, OUP, 2001), <i>Legal Grounds: Natural Resources, Identity and the Law in Jharkhand</i> (edited OUP, 2009), <i>Anthropology in the East: The founders of Indian sociology and anthropology</i> (co-edited, Permanent Black, 2007) <i>A New Moral Economy for India's Forests</i> (co-edited, Sage, 1999).<br />
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Dr. Sundar's research interests are wide and include citizenship, war and counterinsurgency in South Asia, indigenous identity and politics in South Asia, the sociology of law and inequality. Her public writings are available in her blogpost <a href="http://nandinisundar.blogspot.in/">here</a>.<br />
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<b>About the Lecture Series</b><br />
The Indo-American Community Lectureship in India Studies is a part of UC Berkeley's Indo-American Community Chair in India Studies, a chair endowed in 1990-91 with the support of the CG of India in San Francisco, the Hon. Satinder K. Lambah and hundreds of members of the Indo-American community. This lectureship enables ISAS, with the support of the Indian Council for Cultural Relations (ICCR), to bring prominent individuals from India to Berkeley to deliver a lecture and interact with campus and community members during a two-week stay. Past Lectureship holders include Upendra Baxi, Andre Beteille, Madhav Gadgil, Ramachandra Guha, Meenakshi Mukherjee, Narendra Panjwani, Anuradha Kapur, Ashis Nandy, Amita Baviskar, Romila Thapar, Nivedita Menon, and Pratap Bhanu Mehta.<br />
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The <a href="http://chowdhurycenter.berkeley.edu/">Subir & Malini Chowdhury Center for Bangladesh Studies</a> and the <a href="http://southasia.berkeley.edu">Institute for South Asia Studies</a> at UC Berkeley are proud to co-sponsor <a href="http://www.thirdi.org/">3rd 1's</a> 15th Annual San Francisco International South Asian Film Festival. <br />
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The oldest South Asian Film Festival in the United States, 3rd i’s four-day festival is the premier showcase for documentaries, shorts, narratives and innovative and experimental visions that exemplify the best indie films – and there’s also a dash of Bollywood! <br />
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A screening followed by discussion with Prof. Harjant Gill on his three-part series on Indian masculinities, exploring the intersections of race, gender roles, religion, sexual violence, and transnationalism within everyday life in Punjab.<br />
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<b>Speaker Bio</b><br />
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Harjant Gill is an assistant professor of anthropology at Towson University, Maryland. He received his PhD from American University. His research examines the intersections of masculinity, modernity, transnational migration and popular culture in India. Gill is also an award-winning filmmaker and has made several ethnographic films that have screened at film festivals, academic conferences and on television networks worldwide including BBC, Doordarshan (Indian National TV) and PBS. Gill is a Point Foundation alum (2006-11). He has also served on the board of directors of Society for Visual Anthropology (SVA) and co-directed the SVA Film & Media Festival (2012-14).<br />
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<b>Director’s Statement</b>:<br />
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Over the last five years, I have directed a three-part series on Indian masculinities, exploring the intersections of race, gender roles, religion, sexual violence, and transnationalism within everyday life in Punjab. <br />
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<b>Roots of Love</b> (26 min.), the first film in this series profiles Sikh men, and their changing relationship to their hair and turbans. In a post 9/11 world where members of the Sikh community are often targets of racist and xenophobic attacks (especially in North America), young Sikh men in India and in the diaspora are disidentifying with Sikh traditions by cutting their unshorn hair. The film explores the intergenerational tension between the younger Sikhs’ desire to assimilate and older Sikhs’ anxiety around losing the most important symbol of their ethnic and cultural identity.<br />
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<b>Mardistan [Macholand]</b> (28 min.), the second film in this series examines the culture of homophobia, patriarchy and male supremacy in India, including the ubiquity of rape and sexual violence being used as a means of control against Indian women and men. I made the film as a response to the December 2012 gang rape and murder of a young woman in New Delhi, an incident that received global media attention. Departing from the media’s focus on rape culture and sexual violence, “Mardistan” shines a spotlight on men’s lives within a deeply patriarchal society, furthering much-needed discourse on masculinities that remains surprisingly absent from mainstream media’s coverage of gender related issues.<br />
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Filmed in the same (Punjab) region as its predecessors, the third installment in this series <b>Sent Away Boys</b> (40 min.) examines the interplay between agrarian landscapes, patriarchal family structures, and transnational migration. The collapse of small-scale agricultural economies and the lack of secure employment opportunities have led young Punjabi men to give up farming and become part of global workforce providing low-wage labor to counties in Europe, North America, and the Gulf. Filmed in villages largely devoid of young working-aged men, “Sent Away Boys” examines what happens to masculinity within middle-class patriarchal households in the absence of sons, husbands, and fathers.<br />
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Read more about Prof. Gill at his website <a href="http://www.TilotamaProductions.com">www.TilotamaProductions.com</a><br />
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Event made possible with the support of the <a href="http://southasia.berkeley.edu/sarah-kailath-chair-memorial-lecture">Sarah Kailath Chair of India Studies</a><br />
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